Medicine Through Time - Greek Medicine

Greek Medicine

• Asclepios - Greek God of healing.
• Asclepion - Temple of the Greek God. Includes baths and temple to worship.
• Hygeia and Panacea - Asclepius' daughters. Helped heal the sick.
• A healthy lifestyle to maintain a healthy body was popular. They believed eating and drinking well helped to keep the body healthy. Exercise was also an important part of their daily routine.
• People would visit the Asclepion to pray to the God Asclepios and hope to be healed.
• The Asclepion was used to relax, swim, exercise and pray.
• They would spend at least one night in the Asclepion in a room called the Abaton. This is where they would hope the Greek God would visit them in their sleep (or his daughters) and hope that they would wake up healed.
• Many…