Greek: Medicine.
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- Created on: 01-06-13 17:34
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- GREEKS
- Factors which helped or hindered progress
- Religion: Believed in Asclepius/ Dissection banned.
- Trade: Money from slave trade.
- Writing: Wrote using alphabet.
- Philosophy: They questioned many things therefore new idea's + theorys
- Cities were often at war with each other.
- Alexandria: A Big library was created at Alexandria where knowledge of dissection and the body was shared.
- Religion and the Asclepeion
- The stadium.
- Patients exercised here which improved their fitness.
- The abaton.
- Patients slept here hoping that the gods would cure them but they recovered anyway due to the fact they slept.
- Baths.
- Religious reasons but helped their personal hygiene anyway.
- The Temple of Asclepius.: Patients left gifts in hope that god would cure them.
- Helped patients recover even though for religious reasons.
- The stadium.
- Explanation of Disease.
- The Gods: The god Asclepius could heal them.
- The Four Humours.
- Phlegm ( Winter)
- Blood ( spring)
- Yellow Bile ( summer)
- Black bile ( Autumn)
- Theory= important step. Logical idea based on patient instead of relegion.
- Hippocrate's work.
- Four humours: The first natural explanation than supernatural explanation of the cause of disease.
- Observing and recording. He observed patients closely to find correct cure.
- Before: Disease was blamed on gods. He changed this by:
- Natural Treatments. Eg. Diet, excersice and herbal remedies. Away from supernatural treatments.
- Hippocratic Oath: Promise not to hurt patients + Keep their details private.
- Hippocratic collection: Collection of his idea's which were very influencial.
- Other Greek treatments.
- Purging + Bleeding.
- Removing a Body's humour to rebalance them.
- Purging + Bleeding.
- Surgery.
- They had steel + iron which were better tools than egyptians.
- Washed wounds and cleaned the, + wrapped them in Linen,
- Alot of wars therefore surgeons got practice.
- Factors which helped or hindered progress
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