Medicine through time - Greek medicine and treatment (1000BC-0BC)

Greek ideas about medicine and treatement. Included in this quiz is key individuals, ideas about causes and treatement of disease, amount of change in ideas and key dates.

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Name the key individual in this time period
Hippocrates
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What did people think caused disease?
Imbalance of four humours
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What were the four humours?
Black bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood
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What was used to treat disease
Bleeding, purging, praying and herbal remedies
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How much change in medicine and treatement
Hardly any
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When did Hippocrates create the theory of the four humours?
460BC - c370BC
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What did people think caused disease?

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Imbalance of four humours

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What were the four humours?

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What was used to treat disease

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How much change in medicine and treatement

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