Ancient medicine Flashcards
Name the four humours
Phlegm
Black Bile
Yellow bile
Blood
What are the 4 stages of treatment?
Observe, record, diagnosis, prognosis
What are the recommendations to remain healthy?
A walk of 2000 metres before sunrise
During summer: Drink more, eat less
During winter: Eat more, drink less
Recommend washing of face with water everyday
What was believed to cause illness (other then god etc)
The four humours being out of balance, too much blood, too much bile etc.
Who took charge of remedies in households? (rich and poor)
In common households mothers would take on the role of healer. They would use herbal remedies made from plants. In a richer family, the father (because he can read because richer) would look through a tome for a cure, much like a doctor.
Name the book from which doctors would read
The Hippocratic Corpus
What did galen discover?
That the brain controls the body, not the heart. He did this through cutting a pigs spine, and noting that it stopped struggling because of the cut nerves.
He was also the first person to draw detailed human anatomy’s.
What were some of galen’s errors?
A cow had a empty space in its brain, so he assumed this was where the soul resided (this made the church happy).
Jaw the same as a cats (opens in two ways)
Many other things based off of animals.
Why was there “no” medical progress made for 1500 years after Galen?
The church enforced GabeN’s four humours and It was now illegal under the church to dissect bodies.
