Ancient Medicine Mindmap
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- Ancient Medicine
- Prehistoric
- they believed in spirits
- they knew more than 100 herbs and substances that had healing powers
- witch-doctors helped heal people spiritually
- Egyptian
- they had a settles farming community and were keen to find out more about the human body
- they had a formal religion which inc. temples, priests and rituals such as mummification
- they invented the skills of writing and calculations making it easier to communicate and record things
- the invention of the channel theory
- basic sanitation was invented e.g latrines + baths
- discovered papyri
- believed that life was controlled and created by Gods
- believed that Gods caused disease
- good at practical first aid
- good at surgery , however, they didn't venture inside the body
- believed in basic cleanliness
- The Egyptians were the first people to develop the profession of medicine.
- Greek
- The Greek states built up a wide trading empire
- immensely wealthy, and developed a cultural life that included drama, comedy, sculpture, architecture, poetry, politics and public debates.
- The Greek people developed a phonetic form of writing that was more flexible than Egyptian hieroglyphs
- The city built by Alexander in Egypt,Alexandria, became a centre for study and learning, and was famous for its library.
- Greek doctors began to dissect bodies
- they found out in a systematic way about the inside of the boidy
- The Greeks still believed in their gods but not as much as the Egyptians because they gained more scientific knowledge
- Asclepions were built as a place of worship to the Gods and a way to relax and get better
- Hippocrates
- the Greeks developed the first rational system of medicine.
- "Sickness is not sent by the gods or taken away by them. It has a natural basis. If we can find the cause, we can find the cure."
- greek doctors took the Hippocratic Oath
- Philosophers realised that prayers were useless against illneses e.g the plague
- the four humours theory
- Greek doctors became experts at practical first aid.
- They learned about setting broken and dislocated bones
- clinical observation helped them to progress
- The Greeks did not have an extensive public health system, so there were no sewers and no supplies of running water
- they followed a programme for health
- inc eating properly, washing themselves, cleaning their teeth and keeping fit
- Roman
- he Romans developed a huge monolithic empire. This was ruled from Rome by an all-powerful emperor, who imposed his will through a single system of laws
- immensely wealthy, but the Romans were down-to-earth people, and their wealth flowed into practical projects, rather than into philosophy and culture.
- baths, aqueducts and sewers
- they brought over doctors from conquered Greece
- the Romans did not continue the Greeks' investigations into disease and rejected Greek ideas, so Roman knowledge of disease did not progress.
- Roman doctors became experts at practical first aid and external surgery
- the Romans developed new surgical and midwifery instruments
- Roman doctors did not have anaesthetics, and had only herbal antiseptics
- Roman anatomists such as Galen had to rely mainly on dissections of animals to further their knowledge
- Galen's books show a good knowledge of bone structure. He also studied the lungs, the muscles, the heart and blood and the nervous system.
- Galen accepted the Greek theory of the four humoursas the cause of disease
- Galen advocated the healing power of nature and the use of opposites
- Prehistoric
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