Time periods

WHY? The theory of the Four Humours

• Blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile
• Out of balance= ill
• Linked to seasons & the elements

HOW? Bringing balance & herbal remedies

• Bleeding, purging etc.

WHO? Hippocrates

• Observed & recorded
• Hippocratic oath
• Encouraged natural causes
• Hippocratic corpus- encouraged clinal method of observation

WHERE?

• PUBLIC HEALTH
• Asclepios was the Greek God of healing
• Asclepions (temples)- like a health farm- rest & exercise
• Belief in supernatural- healed by Aslepios & 2 daughters
• Natural cures- encouraged healthy living

• SURGERY- last resort
• Specialist tools- scalpels, forceps, shears, probes & hooks
• Simple opperations- mainly outside the body

• PROGRESS
• Understood how some of the body worked
• Better tools
• Better theory of disease
• Aclepions

• STAYED THE SAME
• Still wrong on theory of disease
• Still supernatural