Surgery and Anatomy- Ancient Greece
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- Created on: 14-03-17 19:05
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- Ancient Greece
- Greek knowledge on surgery improved from the Egyptians.
- The Greeks used wine and vinegar to clean wounds (acted like antiseptics).
- Greeks metal work was even stronger and sharper than Egyptian allowing more precise surgery.
- Greek surgeons were able to drain lungs of a patient with pneumonia.
- Greeks fought many wars, dealing with war wounds improving knowledge of surgery. (setting broken bones)
- Anatomy was the biggest area of improvement in Ancient Greece.
- Aristotle- carried out animal dissections and argued for careful observations.
- City of Alexandria (331BC) was the centre of learning and the only place which allowed human dissections.
- Herophilus- (worked in Alexandria) discovered the brain controls the body, the different parts of the stomach and intestines and also linked the beat of the heart and the pulse.
- Greek knowledge on surgery improved from the Egyptians.
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