Ancient Greeks
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- Created on: 24-05-16 23:38
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- Ancient Greeks
- Hippocrates
- Developed the Theory of the Four Humours
- Wrote over 70 books
- Clinical Observation
- To study a patients symptoms and using previous cases to diagnose the illness
- Supernatural Beliefs
- Many people relied on prayers and charms to cure them of illness
- Many prayed because they could not afford a physician and medicines
- Greek Gods
- Apollo: God of the Sun, culture, plague, medicine and knowledge
- Asclepius: God of Healing
- Many visited the temple of Asclepius to pray away their illnesses
- Hygeia: Goddess of Hygiene
- Government
- The government paid philosophers to discover new theories for medicine
- Medical Beliefs
- The Four Humours
- Everyone had their own individual mix of the four humours
- The Four Humours
- Hippocrates
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