History of Medicine
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- Created on: 31-03-15 10:26
EGYPTIAN
Nile
· fertile land (grow plants for medicine)
· Analogy for human body (tributaries = veins)
Religion
· Cleanliness
· Embalming (Better understanding + held back bc. Couldn’t explore further)
Papyrus
· Record Info
· Pass it down (improvement)
Wealth
· Educated (specialist doctors = more knowledge of anatomy and disease)
· Good trading (More knowledge + new remedies)
· Fertile Land
· Make instruments for surgery
· Strong Rulers
GREEK
· Asclepius
· Observations
· Aristotle – Hippocrates – 4 humours – Logic
ROMAN
· Army
· Tiny Creatures (Germs)
Galen (4 Humours)
· 4 Humours (further Research)
· Observation
· Dissection
Health and Hygiene
· Link Between Hygiene and Food
· Public Toilets
· Planned building locations
· Bathhouses
· Aqueducts
· Drainage System
MIDDLE AGES
(Roman Empire got big – couldn’t control all of it – barbarian tribes took over western areas – Europe turned into smaller kingdoms – often at war with each other)
War
· Romans lost many libraries of medical books+ public health systems+ buildings
· Couldn’t travel to share knowledge
· Needed new surgical procedure
· New places = new ideas
Communication
· Few resources
· Cant share ideas
· No travel = Can’t see people who need help
· No libraries = no sharing knowledge
Education
· Lack of books
· Learn through experience
The Black Death (Bubonic Plague)
· Buboes + headaches + fever + tiredness + red/black spots under the skins
· 40% died
· Fleas bite rats – fleas get germ – fleas bite people – people get germ
· Believed to be caused by : Touching victim + Looking at victim + 4humours + Astrology +Miasma + Annoying god + poison wells (poisoned by Jews)
· Believed to be prevented by: Killing dogs/cats + eating crushed emeralds +drink y/o treacle + Herbs in fire (miasma) + sit in sewer + whipping yourself (god’s forgiveness) + eat arsenic
RENAISSANCE
· Dissection allowed
· Smaller Instruments
· Unclean Instruments (Infections)
· Dissection and surgery same instruments (Infection)
· Docs. Judged on dirtiness of apron (Dirty = more experienced)
Gutenburg (Printing)
· Printing introduced to Europe (1454)
Vesalius (Anatomy)
· Awake Patient
· Further knowledge of anatomy (skeleton)
· Images of whole body
· Easily assessable books (Tabulae Sex + Fabric of the human body)
· Labels and Keys
Pare (Army)
· Collected Works (1575) (Faculty of surgeons against it bt. King on his side = Popular book)
· Mapped out anatomy further
· Made his patients as healthy as possible (Meat, bread, wine +egg yolks)
· Interested in deformities
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