Galen

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GCSE History- Medicine Through Time (Galen) Mind Map on Galen, created by mcbarnes97 on 09/10/2013.
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Galen
  1. Observations
    1. Galen emphasize the importance of "Hippocrates" method. He told the doctors to observe, record & use their experience of past cases to decide how to treat the illness
    2. Four Humours
      1. He believed in the Four Humours. Galen used opposites to treat the Humours
        1. Example- Chili and Phlegm
      2. Galen importance to medicine
        1. Old & New Combined
          1. Combing his own with hippocrates
          2. The Church
            1. The Church loved him! He said the body fitted together as a perfect whole. This fitted with God designing the body
            2. Books
              1. Wrote 60 books, all were influetial
            3. New ideas & Methods
              1. New idea 1
                1. He encouraged dissection & not to take things at face value
                2. New idea 2
                  1. Brain controls the body, not the heart
                  2. New idea 3
                    1. Arteries and veins carry blood
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