medicine through time

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  • medicine through time: the ancient period
    • ancient greece
      • anatomy
        • Alexandria
          • Alexander the great
            • conquered egypt
          • the great library
            • dissection
              • human and animals
                • Galen
                  • the great library
                    • dissection
                      • human and animals
                        • Galen
                          • medical books
                          • hippocratic ideas
                            • the 4 humours
                              • phlegm, yellow bile, black bile, blood.
                                • urine wheel
                                • blood letting, vomiting, excretion
                              • observation and diagnosis
                      • vivisection
                        • Erisistatus and herophilus
                  • medical books
                  • hippocratic ideas
                    • the 4 humours
                      • phlegm, yellow bile, black bile, blood.
                        • urine wheel
                        • blood letting, vomiting, excretion
                      • observation and diagnosis
              • vivisection
                • Erisistatus and herophilus
        • influenced by other cultures
      • disease
        • supernatural
          • Asclepions
            • bathe, change diet, rest, give offerings to Asclepius.
        • Natural
          • hippocratic oath
      • public health
        • focused on physical fitness
          • olympics
            • wrestled naked
            • sports
          • scraped olive oil from their skin
    • ancient rome
      • public health
        • aqueducts
          • sewer systums
            • running water
              • rich people would have running water in their houses
                • latrines
                  • public bathes
                    • social events , not mainly focused on the cleaning of the body
        • did not build upon marshy land
      • disease
        • natural
          • galen
            • did not originally follow hippocratic ideas
              • miasma
                • the belief that bad smells cause disease
      • anatomy
        • mainly stole ideas from other societies like the greeks and egyptians
          • the destruction of the original great library
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    • ancient egypt
      • anatomy
        • supernatural
          • gods
            • amulets
              • feather of truth
                • afterlife
        • mummification
          • embalming
            • canopic jars
              • vital organs
                • cranial crochet
                  • afterlife
      • highly religious
        • priests would preform medical procedures
          • brain was unimportant
            • no extensive knowledge on medicine
              • no dissection allowed
              • medical books had to be followed as to make sure the dealth of the patient was not the fault of the doctor.
    • prehistory
      • supernatural
        • wise women/men
          • chant and pray for disease to be cured
        • evil spirits caused illness
        • this relieved pressure so sometimes worked
          • evil spirits caused illness
      • anatomy
        • trephination
          • drilling wholes in the skull
            • this relieved pressure so sometimes worked
        • before the written word
          • not much evidence

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