3. Greeks Medicine

Who treated illness
1. Trained doctors
  1. The Greek-states were constantly at war
2. Priest in the Asclepeia
  1. Health Centre
3. Family
What did they think caused diseases?
1. Gods
2. Four humours
  1. Yelllow bile
  2. Black bile
  3. Blood
  4. Phlegm
Treatment/Prevention
1. Herbal remedies
2. Charms
  1. Superstition
3. Balance the humours
4. Carefully observation
5. Rest, improved diet and exercise
6. Visit the temple of Asclepius
Key ideas
1. Four humours
  1. The humour have to be perfectly balance inorder the person to be healthly
    1. If not – taking in or bleeding out to correct the balance of the humours
2. Asclepuis
  1. One Visit the Temple of Asclepuis could cure you.
3. Careful observation and recording symptons
4. Brain controls the body, no the heart
Example of change
1. Observe and record
2. Asclepius
3. Four humors
4. Use of logic and decision
5. Disection
6. Prayers were useless
Example of continuity
1. Superstitions
2. Continued search for natural cause
3. No idea of the real cause of disease
4. No sewers, no running water
Key figures
1. Hippocrates
  1. Wrote books
    1. Hippocratic Collection
  2. Developed theory of the four humours
  3. Promoted natural treatments
  4. Hippocratic oath
    1. Used today
  5. Disease was caused by the environment

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