History medicine: natural causes of disease
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- Created on: 12-04-18 13:03
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- natural explanation to disease
- Four humours
- many medieval doctors based their diagnosis and treatment of the theory
- theory of four humours created by ancient greek doctor Hippocarates
- hippocrates believed that the body was made up of four fluids: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile linked to four seasons and four elements. needed to be balance
- Galen believed that diseases could be treated using opposites.
- different food s , drinks herbs and spices had a humour which balance out excessive humour
- miasma
- the miasma theory is idea that bad air causes disease when someone breathes in, bad air must come from human waste or dead bodies
- originated in ancient greece and rome incorporated by galen
- theory so influential lasted 1860s replaced by Germ theory
- hippocrates and galen
- influential in medical realm, hippocrates wrote beliefs about medicine translated into books, important text by roman catholics
- many ideas taught for centuries after death. medieval doctors not allowed to perform own dissections
- the hippocratic oath made promise by all doctors to obey rules of behaviour in profesional lives
- Four humours
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