What was the KEY reason for lack of progress in medicine(1848)
Lack of understanding of disease
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Why was bad understanding of disease a limiting factor for progress in medicine?
Limited understanding would lead to faulty knowledge of doctors on disease which would lead to ineffective ideas of treatment of disease
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What was the theory of the four humours?
An idea that rested on the belief that the body was formed on 4 humours and an imbalance of the humours would lead to illness
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Who developed the FOUR HUMOURS theory?
The Ancient Greeks
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What was the effect of the theory of 4 humours?
It prevented progress in treatment and prevention because ideas were now based on the theory of opposites
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What was the theory of opposites?
The idea that if there was too much of an imbalance of one humour, the balance could be restored by eating/drinking something with the opposite qualities
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Why was bad understanding of disease a limiting factor for progress in medicine?
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Limited understanding would lead to faulty knowledge of doctors on disease which would lead to ineffective ideas of treatment of disease
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