Galen
- Created by: Stephers
- Created on: 09-04-14 19:12
View mindmap
- Why was Galen so important?
- Anatomy and Dissection
- Hippocrates hadn't done much work on dissection and didn't say it was important
- Galen believed physicians should find out as much as possible about the structure and workings of the body
- If possible, dissecting as many bodies as possible (but they were hard to find as it was against the law)
- He loved to demonstrate his experiments in public eg. showing how cutting different nerves stopped different things i.e. the pig squealing
- Galen's discoveries were important
- Th brain, not heart controls speech
- The arteries and veins carried blood
- Although he did make mistakes because he had to dissect animal bodies, not humans.
- Treatments
- He followed Hippocrates ideas on the four humour and used them as 'a stepping stone' to allow him to develop them and come up with 'opposites'.
- eg.A cold-too cold, treat with something warm (and natural-herbs/veg.) eg. peppers
- He most commonly used bleeding to balance humours
- He followed Hippocrates ideas on the four humour and used them as 'a stepping stone' to allow him to develop them and come up with 'opposites'.
- Diagnosis
- Used Hippocrates ideas on balancing the 'four humours'
- He made sure to observe and examine patients carefully, making notes which was especially important when plague struck.
- Galen's Influence
- Galen wrote hundreds of books, extremely detailed and organised
- Included the work of other doctors such as Hippocrates, developing their ideas.
- His books became a basis for medical training for over one thousand years
- His ideas fitted with the Christian church-a god created the body and everything fits together.
- No one dared to question Galen's ideas
- Galen wrote hundreds of books, extremely detailed and organised
- Anatomy and Dissection
Comments
Report