Ancient medicine

Ancient medicine

1. religion

   • God created disease as punishment
     • Should not be treated
   • Those who question God were inprisioned or killed
   • Astrology
   • Very Important

2. treatments

   • Blood letting
   • Trepanning
     • Hole in skull
   • leeches
   • Theory of Opposites
   • Prayer
   • Pilgrimimage

3. Physicians

   • Galen
     • Used animals as reference
       • This caused issues regarding the nervous system and respiratory system
     • Used Hippocrates work (Hippocratic Collection)
       • Contributed a large amount to it
         • Theory of opposites
     • Born 130 AD, Died 210 AD
     • Theories & methods used for hundreds of years
       • This includes incorrect theories
         • Believed blood was continually used and made
     • Proved that arteries carried blood
     • Roman
   • Hippocrates
     • Born 460 BC, died 360 BC
     • believed disease was not caused by God
     • Herbal remedies
     • 'Hippocratic collect`
       • Used for hundreds of years
       • 70 books
         • lists of symptoms and treatments
     • Observed symptoms of medicine and recorded them
     • Theory of the 4 humours
       • blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm
     • Originally dismissed due to heavy belief in religion
     • Greek

4. Diagnosis

   • The theory of the four humours
   • Urine Test
   • phlebotomy
     • Blood Tests