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Where did the Greeks live?

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Around the city of Athens and the Mediterranean area

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What did Greeks build on?

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Egyptian ideas

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What were Greeks famous for?

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Their love of philosophy and rational thinking

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Who was the Greek God of Healing?

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Asclepius

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Who was the most important Greek person?

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Hippocrates

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Who was Hippocrates?

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A philosopher and doctor who changed the way doctors approached their work

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When was the Greek Empire?

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1000BC to 250BC

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When did Hippocrates live?

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460BC to 377BC

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Who is Hippocrates often called?

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“The Father of Medicine”

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What did Hippocrates become famous for?

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The Hippocratic Collection (corpus of books)

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What was Hippocrates’ theory?

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The Four Humours

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Which doctors was the theory of the Four Humours based on?

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Thales, Anaximander, Pythagoras and Aristotle

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What did Hippocrates think everything was made out of?

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Four elements: earth, water, fire and air

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What idea did Hippocrates apply to the human body?

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That it was therefore made of four humours: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile

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What did Hippocrates think that balance of the four humours was affected by?

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The seasons e.g. yellow bile in summer, black bile in autumn, phlegm in winter and blood in spring

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What did Hippocrates say had to happen for a person to remain healthy?

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The four humours had to remain in balance, and an imbalance caused an illness

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What did Hippocratic medicine reject?

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The idea that Gods, magic and spirits could cure disease

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What did Hippocrates develop to treat patients effectively?

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Clinical observation

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What is Clinical Observation?

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Made of four parts: Observation, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment

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What did Hippocrates tell doctors to do?

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To observe their patients and take notes in order to pass on important ideas so illnesses could be predicted and treatments could be based on knowledge gained from other cases

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Using clinical observation, how did doctors treat their patients?

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They tried to bring the 4 humours back into balance e.g. they would bleed a person with too much blood, purge a person

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What is the Hippocratic Oath?

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Doctors had to promise to give their best treatment and not to harm the patient

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What was bad about Hippocratic medicine?

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It was accepted for hundreds of years and no one dared to say it was wrong which hindered medical progress, some treatments like bleeding were very dangerous

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What was good about Hippocratic medicine?

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It rejected many bad supernatural cures

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Where did people go to be cured in the Temple of Asclepion?

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They had to sleep in the Abaton where they were visited at night by Asclepius, his two daughters and a snake which would help him heal

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What did people also do at the Temple of Asclepion apart from sleeping in the Abaton?

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They took regular exercise, ate a healthy diet and bathed

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How did people get Asclepion to cure them?

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They made offerings and prayers at the temple and left carved stones as a sign of gratitude

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What were attitudes to Public Health like in Greek times?

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Similar to Ancient Egyptians; Hippocrates recommended keeping clean but governments did not do anything to help

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What did Hippocrates recommend?

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A ‘Programme of Health’; a healthy diet and regular exercise would lead to a healthy body and mind

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What did Hippocrates recommend in terms of seasons?

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To eat less and drink more in summer, and to drink less and eat more in winter

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What kind of public health things were built all over greece?

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Sports stadiums and gymnasiums. Showers were compulsory after exercise

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What was Greek way of life best suited to?

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Rich people; poor people like labourers and craftsmen found it very difficult to keep clean

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What was Greek surgery like?

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Very limited; they performed basic surgical operations like setting broken bones

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What was Greek surgery and Treatment based on the idea of?

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The 4 Humours

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What was built at Alexandria?

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A university and a library for doctors which eventually developed in to a medical school with books in from Hippocrates and Aristotle

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What was so good about Alexandria?

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The dissection of corpses was allowed which allowed doctors to find out a lot about anatomy

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What did Herophilus discover from dissections?

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That the brain controlled the human body

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