Galen And Asclepios Flashcards
What was the period in which Galen was worshipped?
c. 130 AD - 210 AD
What was Galens first name?
Claudius
Where was Galen born?
Born in Pergamum (modern day Turkey) of Greek parents.
Where did Galen study?
In Greece, to be a doctor.
What was Galen famous for?
Galen was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire, who was influenced by Hippocrates’s (Father of Medicine) idea of the four humours.
Galen developed this by introducing the idea of using opposites to treat illnesses.
What is Galens theory?
That illness was caused by an imbalance of the four humours, blood, phlegm, Black bile and yellow bile.
He recommended specific diets to help in the cleansing of the putrefied juices.
What mistakes did Galen make?
He thought that blood was created in the liver. He realised that it flowed round the body, but said it was burned up as a fuel for the muscles. He thought he saw holes through the septum, which allowed the blood to flow from one side of the heart to the other. He made mistakes about the blood vessels in the brain. He thought the human jaw bone were made up of 2 bones, like a dogs. He was mistaken about the shape of the liver.
Who was Hippocrates?
Hippocrates was born around 450 BC on the island of Kos, Greece. He became known as the founder of medicine. He based his medical practice on observations and on the study of the human body.
Hippocratic medicine treated the patient and not just the disease.
Who was Asclepius?
He was known as the God of Medicine and was the son of Apollo. He was a physician to soldiers wounded in the battlefield at Troy.
What is Asclepius known for?
His knowledge of healing and his healing abilities.
What do these words mean?
Mythology
Descendants
Ancient Greece
Physician
Mythology - a collection of or study of myths (tradition, folk stories, a popular belief)
Descendants - a person that is related to you and who lives after you.
Ancient Greece - was a civilisation belonging to a period of Greek history.
Physician - a doctor that practices medicine.
Why was Galen so important in the history of medicine?
His and Hippocrates ideas were important because they provided the first natural theory of disease which was evidence of progress as it stepped away from supernatural ideas about the cause and cures of illnesses.
Galens experiments were ?
Dissecting animals to understand how the body functioned (it was illegal to dissect human bodies).
By doing this he proved that urine was formed in the kidney (as opposed to the bladder which was common belief) and he discovered that the arteries carried blood around the body.
