Roman Period 600.b.c - 400.a.d
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- Roman Period 600 B.C. - 400A.D
- Hippocrates
- Greek physician
- Developed the FOUR HUMOURS
- Idea of the Four Humours being imbalanced would cause you to get ill
- Black Bile, Yellow Bile, Phlegm and Blood
- Believed mainly in rest, exercise and diet
- Dismissed idea that the Gods cause disease
- Wrote Hippocratic Oath which is still used today
- Ideas weren't accepted by the Church so he wasn't very successful in his ideas being spread
- Galen
- Roman doctor
- Beliefs were ACCEPTED by the Church so ideas were accepted by nearly everyone
- Wrote over 400 books and was very successful
- Ideas dominated medicine for over 1000 years!
- Created the Theory of Opposites
- Idea that to balance the humours, you did the opposite to the effects it was making on the body
- Many of his ideas were wrong but because he was accepted by the Church, people feared to speak against them as it was seen as an act against God
- Treatments
- most based on HERBAL REMEDIES
- passed down from FATHER TO SON
- used prayer/ religion to help cope with illness
- plant and herbal remedies mainly used
- Doctors prescribed treatments on basis of exercise, diet and rest
- Mainly based balancing the four humours by whichever means necessary
- Blood letting/ purging
- Theory of Opposites
- most based on HERBAL REMEDIES
- Doctors
- Lacked official training
- Mainly used for the army and soldiers
- Weren't respected as many were foreign
- Some trained in Alexandria (Egypt) where dissection was allowed
- Treating the sick
- treated by father from use of herbal remedies passed down from his father
- waters in Roman baths believed to have healing powers
- prayers and offerings made to Gods to help heal them
- Public health
- because the Roman Empire was so rich and vast, it had the money to spend on public health facilities
- Aqueducts
- Transported water from countryside to provide fresh, clean water the streets and to the homes of the rich
- Latrines
- Sewers
- Took away human waste but became blocked if there was a lack of rainfall
- Public bath houses
- Pipe network
- Romans realised that cleanliness was key to good health and so built towns away from swamps and marshes
- Hippocrates
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