ancient history pt2 Flashcards
1
Q
what did early greek medicine focus on
A
- religion and magical cures
- purely secular healers arose who called themselves Asclepiads
2
Q
life of hippocrates
A
born on Cos to an Asclepiad father
- travelled to Balkins and in Asia
- practiced on Cos and Thessaly
3
Q
who wrote hippocrates writings
A
his followers
- Hippocratic collection
composed of 60 words, 19 authers
4
Q
what is the hippocratic method
A
- observe all using your senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste
- gather observations w/o prejudice or expectation
- study the patient rather than the diasease (hollistic view)
- evaluate honestly and tell the patient
- assist nature to heal
5
Q
hippocrates humors (fluids)
A
air = blood = sanguine fire = yellow bile = choleric earth = black bile = melancholic water = phlegm = phlegmatic
6
Q
hippocrates phases of illnesses
A
degeneration of humors:
coction
crisis
evacuation of the humors in excess
7
Q
Rudolf Virchow (1858)
A
replace humoral pathology- interpretation of illnesses by humours
- instead replaced with cellular-pathology
ex. type 1 diabetes: disease of cells not humors
8
Q
inheritance
A
rudolf virchow:
- all parts of the body produce seed material: traits in offspring arise from the mixing of male and female seed material
pangenesis: body sends info about experiences to sex organs and transmits to offspring
9
Q
hippocrates anatomy and physiology
A
based on dissections of animals - extended to people
- pneuma enters lungs –> left side of heart –> arteries
- brain is a radiator that cools the blood and seperates water/mucus
10
Q
hippocrates treatment
A
therapy: environmental, ointments, baths, laxatives, emetics, narcotics, surgery, bloodletting
