Blood: blood letting. Black bile: hot baths. Yellow bile: blood letting, liquid diet. Phlegm: hot baths, warm food.
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Hippocratic corpus and oath?
Collection of around 70 early medical works. Number of case studies. Swear by the Gods to bring oath to fulfilment
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Middle ages?
Disease was divine punishment for sins. Cured by miracle intervention, invoking of saints and bloodletting
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Renaissance period?
Disease was a physical condition of the body which was separate from the mind. Surgical techniques used first. Descartes- mind body dualism.
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Post-renaissance?
Developed the first microscope. For the first time see disease located in faulty cells
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Foundations of modern medicine 19th century?
Edward Jenner: small pox vaccination. Louis Pasteur: germ theory. Wilhelm Roentgen: X rays. Rudolf Virchow: cellular theory
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20th century?
Bio medical model. Causes have biological origins, and health is restored by fixing the biological machine. Too reductionist. Couldn't acknowledge other causes for illnesses eg. heart disease
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Twenty first century?
Biopsychosocial causes of disease. Modern and flexible methods of treatment
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Front
Ancient Egypt?
Back
Demons and punishment from the Gods caused illness. Sorcery and primitive forms of surgery and hygiene were treatments
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