History Revision - Greek Ideas

• resting
• change of diet
• regular exercise
• keep clean wash face and eyes using pure water
• rub whole body with oil
• long walks
• in winter eat as much as possible and drink as little as possible
• in summer eat as little as possible and drink as much as possible
• rub teeth inside and out

• a visit to the temple of Asclepius was often prescribed
• however most people who went to the temple did get better there were a few reasons for this such as:
• plazebo effect: people believed they were better (this was all in their minds)
• they did things such as; relax, exercise and eat a better diet.

• the humours are the liquids in the body, and when you are well they should be balanced but when you get ill, they become unbalanced.
• the four humours are blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.
• blood, people cough this up or have nose bleeds, this is how you lose blood
• phlegm, people cough this up or sneeze this, this is how you lose phlegm
• yellow bile, people vomit half digested food after a meal
• black bile, people vomit when they haven't eaten, so no food is in your system.

• was born in AD129 in Greece
• studied for 9 years in Corinth, Crete, Palestrine and learnt the most at Alexandria
• became a physician because he believed in the theory made by Hippocrates, and was interested in bones, and thought that he could act upon Hippocrates theory.
• Galen liked being a doctor to the gladiators because he gained personal experience as a surgeon as people suffered from stab wounds, broken bones and other major injuries
• in AD169 became a famous doctor for the Roman Emperor and a teacher to other doctors.
• thought that Hippocrates was a very intelligent person but needs to improve on some of the ideas.
• thought of the opposites theory; if you had a cold eat something hot
• wasn't able to dissect human bodies due to religious beliefs in reincarnation, and dissected pigs and apes learnt that brain controls the whole body.
• saw deade bodies being a doctor to the gladiators and in the tombs
• written 60 books about his medical ideas

Knowledge of Anatomy
The Greeks could identity some parts of the body and had begun to understand some of its workings For Example: that the brain controls the body

Causes of illness

• the four humours
• the gods

Medicine, treatments and cures

• careful observations
• herbal remedies
• charms and spells
• rest, diet and exercise
• personal hygiene
• bleeding

Who provided medical care

• the Greek god, Asclepius
• Greek doctors
• physicians

Surgery

• setting broken bones
• extreme cases amputation
• draining of the lungs

Prevention of illness

• rest
• good diet
• exercise
• personal hygiene

Factors affecting medicine

• they can't dissect the human body
• religion
• key individuals
• communication