Medicine - Ancient Times
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- Created on: 09-10-13 09:42
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- Medicine - Ancient Times
- Ancient Greece
- Likewise with the Egyptians, they were very religious
- Temples = Hospitals
- People payed to visit an Asclepion which boasted health spas and herbal cures.
- Advised a healthy diet and exercise
- If you were ill you would have upset Ascelpius, the Greek God of healing
- Temples = Hospitals
- Wine was used as a basic antisecptic
- The Theory of the Four Humours
- Devised by Hippocrates
- Gave his name to the Hippocratic Oath, something all doctors stilll abide by today
- States that the body consists of 4 sections, each linked to a natursl element
- Blood - Air
- Ye;llow Bile= Fire
- Phelgm = Water
- Black Bile - Earth
- If you were sick, it was believed that one of the humours was out of balance
- In order to treat the ailment, the Greeks would use something of the opposite characteristic.
- Eg. Blood is hot so something cold would be used.
- In order to treat the ailment, the Greeks would use something of the opposite characteristic.
- As this was a newlu emerging theory, the Greeks were rather sceptical
- Devised by Hippocrates
- No amputations
- No offical medical training
- Surgery and dissecen
- Likewise with the Egyptians, they were very religious
- Ancient Rome
- Wanted more practical medicine as theyneeded gladiators to be fit and well to fight
- Causes of illness
- Roman and Greek gods of healing
- Public Health
- Baths and tolets
- Cost = 1 quadron allowing all classes to experience treatment
- 7 rivers were made to flush the city's sewers out
- 20 people could be seated at one toilet
- 144 public toilets built in Rome
- Had saunas, cold rooms, spas, libraries, gyms and under floor heating
- Aqeducts
- Series of underground and overground channels
- Pressurized pipework as well as tunnels and cfhaneels
- Baths and tolets
- Treatment
- Herbal remedies
- Visits to Asclepions
- Bleeding
- Cataracts were removed with needles
- Amputations began to occur
- The work of Galen
- Born September 129AD
- Aged 16 - Studied at an Asclepion
- Be;lieved in the Four Humours
- Was a doctor not a surgeon but dissected
- Doctors were only there to provide advice and were not allowed to disect bodies or perform surgery.
- Performed dissections on pigs and monkeys
- Peformed 2 human dissections
- Performed public experiements and did conduct brain and eye surgery.
- Doctors were only there to provide advice and were not allowed to disect bodies or perform surgery.
- Thought the jaw was in 2 parts
- Two types of blood - Venous and Arterial
- Galen's father died when he was young, leaving him with a large cash inheritance
- Ancient Egypt
- Very advanced to past eras
- Religion was key
- If you were ill, you'd upset the deities
- Organs were removed from the bodies of the dead
- Observations were made in hieroglyphics, allowing the spread of knowledge
- Had very fertile soils,resulting in a large bounty of crops
- Traded with the Chinese and shared knowledge
- They believed that if you were unwell it was because one of the chambers in the beart was blocked
- Ancient Greece
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