Medicine Through Time
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- Medicine
- Hippocrates
- Believed in Clinical Observation. This allowed doctor to observe the patients; breathing, heart rate, urine and temperature.
- This helped doctors diagnose a patient.
- He established the theory of the Four Humours
- Yellow bile, black bile, phlegm and blood.
- He believed that if one of the Humours was out of balance that was the reason for your illness.
- He was considered 'The Father of Medicine'.
- Hippocratic Oath; doctor promises they will do all the can to help their patient.
- Believed in Clinical Observation. This allowed doctor to observe the patients; breathing, heart rate, urine and temperature.
- Galen
- Continued on from Hippocrates theory of the Four Humours to establish the 'Theory of Opposites'.
- This meant that you had too much phlegm because you had a cold, and therefore, hear would be used to treat it.
- To qualify as a doctor you would need to train for seven years. They would learn from lectures or debate what they read in books.
- It was normal for a doctor to leave University without seeing an actual patient
- Doctors in Britain would learn from Hippocrates, Galen and British medical textbooks.
- To qualify as a doctor you would need to train for seven years. They would learn from lectures or debate what they read in books.
- It was normal for a doctor to leave University without seeing an actual patient
- Doctors in Britain would learn from Hippocrates, Galen and British medical textbooks.
- Doctors in Britain would learn from Hippocrates, Galen and British medical textbooks.
- It was normal for a doctor to leave University without seeing an actual patient
- To qualify as a doctor you would need to train for seven years. They would learn from lectures or debate what they read in books.
- Doctors in Britain would learn from Hippocrates, Galen and British medical textbooks.
- It was normal for a doctor to leave University without seeing an actual patient
- To qualify as a doctor you would need to train for seven years. They would learn from lectures or debate what they read in books.
- His work was believed for over 1500 years.
- No one dared challenge him, as his work was believed by the Church. Challenging Galen, meant you were challenging the Church, which was a sin.
- Galen referred to God as the creator.
- No one dared challenge him, as his work was believed by the Church. Challenging Galen, meant you were challenging the Church, which was a sin.
- Measuring pulse was important to him.
- Performed experiment on pig. Proved that the brain controlled the body not the heart.
- Medieval Doctors and Surgery.
- Hippocrates
- Hippocrates believed rest, exercise and change in diet can help a patients recovery.
- Galen performed dissection on animals.
- Human dissections were not allowed.
- Led him to make many decisions in his work. For example, he stated the jaw bone was made up of two when in fact it is one.
- Galen
- Continued on from Hippocrates theory of the Four Humours to establish the 'Theory of Opposites'.
- This meant that you had too much phlegm because you had a cold, and therefore, hear would be used to treat it.
- His work was believed for over 1500 years.
- No one dared challenge him, as his work was believed by the Church. Challenging Galen, meant you were challenging the Church, which was a sin.
- Galen referred to God as the creator.
- No one dared challenge him, as his work was believed by the Church. Challenging Galen, meant you were challenging the Church, which was a sin.
- Measuring pulse was important to him.
- Performed experiment on pig. Proved that the brain controlled the body not the heart.
- Human dissections were not allowed.
- Medieval doctor followed clinical observation or bedside observation.
- Focused on urine and pulse.
- Often did not work because they didn't find correct place for removal.
- Treatment- Bloodletting, a way to restore balance of Four Humours. Cut would be made on arm to remove blood or would use leeches.
- Other treatment might include giving you something to vomit/ go toilet.
- Supernatural treatments- prayers, charms, astrology.
- Treatment- Bloodletting, a way to restore balance of Four Humours. Cut would be made on arm to remove blood or would use leeches.
- Based on Greek Knowledge
- They would treat form head downwards and bought together medical theory, Christian prayers, recipes and charms
- Gilbert Eagle's Compendium Medicine (1230)
- University Doctors. Few and expensive.
- Wise Woman offered herbal remedies. Knowledge passed down by word of mouth.
- Market and fair offered tooth extraction, mend dislocated limbs and set a fracture in a splint.
- People would go to monasteries for help. They would pray for forgiveness from God as their illness was a punishment from him.
- Remedies- prayers and charms.
- People would go to monasteries for help. They would pray for forgiveness from God as their illness was a punishment from him.
- Market and fair offered tooth extraction, mend dislocated limbs and set a fracture in a splint.
- Wise Woman offered herbal remedies. Knowledge passed down by word of mouth.
- Amputation- removal of a damaged part or limb. Used for breast cancer, bladder stones or haemorrhoids.
- Extremely painful.
- Epilepsy- demons inside your head. Drill a hole in you head for them to escape.
- Extremely painful.
- Cauterisation- burning of the skin or flesh to prevent the flow of blood.
- Surgeons tools; cautery irons, arrow pullers and saws.
- Anaesthetics; opium, hemlock, mandrake. Too much might kill patient.
- Surgery in Weston Europe and Islamic Empire advanced by surgical pioneers or tried new methods.
- Hugh of Luca and son Theodoric disagreed with the method pus should be put into wounds to heal it.
- They used wine instead to prevent the chance of infection
- They were ahead of their time and unpopular as the challenged Hippocrates
- De Chaulic wrote Great Surgery (1363). Dominated French and English surgery for 200 years.
- He quoted Galen 890 times.
- Disagreed with Luca and wrote a book criticising him.
- John Ardene wrote 'Practica' 1376. Contained illustrations of his operations and instruments.
- Based on Greek and Islamic knowledge from experience in the Hundred Year War
- Used opium and henbane to dull pain.
- In 1368 he attempted to separate surgeons from barber surgeons to form 'Guild of Surgeons, in London
- Used opium and henbane to dull pain.
- Based on Greek and Islamic knowledge from experience in the Hundred Year War
- Books written in Latin were translated into English
- He quoted Galen 890 times.
- De Chaulic wrote Great Surgery (1363). Dominated French and English surgery for 200 years.
- He quoted Galen 890 times.
- Disagreed with Luca and wrote a book criticising him.
- John Ardene wrote 'Practica' 1376. Contained illustrations of his operations and instruments.
- Based on Greek and Islamic knowledge from experience in the Hundred Year War
- Used opium and henbane to dull pain.
- In 1368 he attempted to separate surgeons from barber surgeons to form 'Guild of Surgeons, in London
- Used opium and henbane to dull pain.
- Based on Greek and Islamic knowledge from experience in the Hundred Year War
- Books written in Latin were translated into English
- He quoted Galen 890 times.
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