Hippocrates

Hippocrates

1. Hippocratic Oath

   • Treatment and confidentiality
   • Contrinewety and Influence

2. Four Humours

   • Liquids within your body
     • Blood
     • Phlegm
     • Yellow Bile
     • Black Bile
   • Needed to remain balanced to stay healthy
   • Important development i medical knowledge
     • Originated work of Aristotle

3. Hippocrates and other Greek Practitioners

   • Argued that the balance of the four humours would be most effective in particular months
     • Example- If someone has a fever then they would have too much blood in their body. the logical cure if to "bleed" the patient.

4. Use of the Four Humours as a diagnostic tool would result in doctors looking for symptoms; the first time that a clinical observation of a patient was recorded