Ancient Rome Mind Map SWHS
- Created by: Eleni Robinson
- Created on: 23-08-15 13:56
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- Ancient Rome
- Roman Life
- They made links between Health and hygiene
- Ideas from all over the Empire
- Improved Public Health
- Sewage Systems
- Raised Awareness of fitness and hygiene
- Government raised taxes
- Prevention rather than cure
- Healthy soldiers used to treat wounds
- Didn't look for new theories or causes
- They made links between Health and hygiene
- Hippocrates
- The Four humours
- Four humours inside the body, blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile and if they became unbalanced you became ill
- Humours linked to beliefs about the world and the four seasons
- Four humours inside the body, blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile and if they became unbalanced you became ill
- Galen developed the theory further making it into the theory of the opposites and needed to be rebalanced
- Depending on different seasons you could get different ilnesses
- They progressed in observations after giving diagnosises
- Importance of Hippocrates :
- Showed that it was important to observe and record symptoms
- Shared his findings with thousands of people
- The Hippocratic Collection
- Encouraged doctors to look for natural treatments
- Galen followed his works
- He taught about healthy lifestyle and excercise
- The Four humours
- Public Health
- Avoiding the spread of disease within a particular society
- They understood that dirty conditons made people ill and so provided lots of facilites
- Aqueducts
- Built out of town to transport clean water to roman towns from far away
- Healthy Lifestyle
- Didn't build near swampy marsh lands
- Caused diseases like diarrhoea and malaria
- Spent lots of money on public health and wanted healthy soldiers and merchants
- Used preventative medicines instead of finding a cure
- Didn't build near swampy marsh lands
- Public Baths
- Link between fitness and health
- They had and exercise area near the baths
- The expense of entering the baths was very small so more people could afford to go
- Attracted more people
- They had and exercise area near the baths
- Spread awareness so more people would use the baths per day
- Link between fitness and health
- Sewers and Public latrines
- Allowed the disposal of waste which was flushed away by streams
- Used vinegar to disinfect the toilets with a sponge
- Slaves cleaned the streets at night when everyone was asleep
- Long marble benches with holes cut out with a stream through the middle
- Galen
- Born in Greece in AD129
- He started studying medicine at 16 and went to Alexandria in Egypt to study.
- He travelled for 12 years to improve his knowledge and develop his understanding of anatomy
- He became a surgeon at a gladiator school which his knowledge further
- In AD162 he became a doctor to the emperor of Rome
- He paased his findings onto his students and to other doctors
- He wrote 60 books in his lifetime which combined Greek and his own knowledge
- This became the basis for medical teaching and learning for the next 150 years
- His theories dominated European medicine for 1,500 years
- Originator of the experimental method in medical investigation
- Throughout his life he dissected animals to understand the functions of the human body
- Proved that urine was formed in the kidney as apposed to the bladder
- Arteries carry blood but didn't discover circulation
- Influence regined for 15 centuries until the renaisaance where his theories refuted
- Originator of the experimental method in medical investigation
- Causes & Cures
- Many people believed in prayer and the trust in different Gods during this time
- Healing shrines and herbs and plants
- Purging and Bloodletting were popular but they also used trephining to relieve hedaches
- Bad air was thought to be a cause of illness
- They cleaned towns, added drainage to towns and used urine to wash hands
- They used weak anaesthetics to relieve pain of patients
- They cleaned towns, added drainage to towns and used urine to wash hands
- Bad air was thought to be a cause of illness
- Many people believed in prayer and the trust in different Gods during this time
- Training
- To become a doctor you don't have to be formally trained but most doctors have a small training background
- You need to have good ideas and theories which attract numerous patients
- Dissection of humans is completely forbidden in the roman empire
- Treatment is based on diet, exercise and change in patients diet
- Influenced by Hippocrates who introduced the importance to observe and record carefully the symptoms
- Roman Life
- Water/Winter: Cold and moist
- Humour = Phlegm
- Treatment = Hot peppers
- Symptoms = Cold, runny nose
- Fire/Summer: Hot and dry
- Humour = Yellow Bile
- Treatment = Cucumber
- Symptoms = Vomit, fever
- Humour = Yellow Bile
- Earth/ Autumn: Cold and dry
- Humour = Black Bile
- Symptoms = Stomach pain
- Disposal of rubbish and waste, prevented pollution and health problems linked
- Healthy body = healthy mind
- They thought air caused illnesses
- Stored water in reservoirs
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