Medieval Disease
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- Created on: 01-10-19 09:10
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- Medieval Disease
- Four Humours
- Blood
- Phlegm
- Black Bile
- Yellow Bile
- Beliefs about disease
- Natural- 4 humours are out of balance
- Supernatural- believed disease was a punishment from God and the cure was to pray.
- Cures
- Prescribe natural remedies
- Remove impurities by blood-letting with leeches
- Prescribe medicine for vomiting or laxatives.
- Involve supernatural response
- Galen
- Became most famous doctor in Roman Empire.
- Influenced by Hippocrates' ideas of 4 humours. Developed idea by using opposites to treat illnesses.
- Influenced many due to his knowledge and helped many understand.
- Hippocrates
- Was considered 1 of most outstanding figures in medieval history.
- Based medical practice on observation and human body.
- 1st to release medicine due to religion or superstition.
- Established it as a science based on observations and recordings.
- Discovered holistic system to classify diseases based on similarities and contrasts
- Diagnosis
- Urine charts- observing urine
- Colour, taste and smell
- Astrology
- Where stars lie and horoscopes.
- Urine charts- observing urine
- The Church
- Only allowed Galen's ideas
- Founded first hospitals
- Provided care for sick and poor
- Illness came from God and curing it would be challenging Him.
- Treatment- praying and pilgrimages
- Islam
- Caliphs provided support needed for progress
- Believed in treating so they could help Allah.
- Al-Razi
- Stressed observation. Distinguished measles from smallpox. Encouraged students to improve work of teacher.
- Avicenna
- Wrote great encyclopedia of medicine- the 'Canon of Medicine'.
- Listed properties of 760 drugs and wrote on obesity and anorexia.
- Wrote great encyclopedia of medicine- the 'Canon of Medicine'.
- Four Humours
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