Treatment of the sick
- Created by: Katie
- Created on: 30-11-13 14:26
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- How the ill were treated at different times
- Prehistoric
- Rational
- They would set bones using mud.
- Irrational
- The use of herbs.
- Trepanning
- Evil Spirits
- Very little is known about prehistoric people as they couldn't write there documents down.
- Rational
- Egyptian
- Rational
- Diagnosis
- Observing the patient and recognising their symptoms.
- They thought the body was full of channels.
- If the channels were blocked they would use vomiting, purging and bleeding to clear the passages.
- They knew diet was important.
- Diagnosis
- Irrational
- Amulets
- Charms
- Rituals
- Gods
- Sekhmet - sent and cured epidemics.
- Thoth was the God who gave doctors the power to cure people.
- Imhotep was adopted as the God of healing.
- Rational
- Greek
- Irrational
- Rational
- Greek Philosophers started to explain things more rationally.
- Hippocratic Doctors
- They thought that illness was an imbalance of elements.
- They encouraged the use of a four step method.
- Step 1 - Diagnosis - study the symptoms.
- Step 2 - Prognosis - Consider and Predict.
- Step 3 - Observation - Observe, Note and Compare.
- Step 4 - Treatment - Treat with Confidence.
- Aristotle developed the Hippocratic balance of elements to suggest that the body was made up of four fluids or humours - blood phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These were linked to the four seasons and the four elements.
- Roman
- Rational
- Four Humours
- Treatment of opposites
- Irrational
- Spirits
- Asclepion
- Rational
- Medieval
- Rational
- Urine Samples
- Doctors
- Four Humours
- Irrational
- Supersition
- Magic
- Prayer and Penitence
- Astrology
- Positioning of Planets
- Certain "words"
- Rational
- Renaissance
- Rational
- Observation
- Four Humours
- Treatment of opposites
- Irrational
- Rational
- Prehistoric
- Irrational
- Supersition
- Magic
- Prayer and Penitence
- Astrology
- Positioning of Planets
- Certain "words"
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