greek and roman medicine

Question 1

hippocratic corpus

Answer 1

70 treatises on disease

Question 2

medicine

Answer 2

branch of natual philosophy (through observation and reason we can understand the causes of disease and the treatments) but not total disappearance of magical and supernatural elements

Question 3

four humours

Answer 3

yellow bile, black bile, blood, phlegm

Question 4

four temperments

Answer 4

phlegmatic, sanguine, melancholic, choleric

Question 5

melancholia

Answer 5

greek: melas khole = black bile. excess black bile accumulating in the liver and rising to the head.

Question 6

6 non - naturals

Answer 6

air, food and drink, sleep and waking, movement and rest, retention and evacuation, emotions and passions of the soul

Question 7

herophilus and erasistratus

Answer 7

most famous practiitoners of human dissections

Question 8

epiricists

Answer 8

no dissection. concentrate on visible symptoms and recommend therapy based on past experience

Question 9

rationalists

Answer 9

likes to dissect stuff; it contributes to formation of hypothesis regarding hidden cause of disease. value of physiological theory for medicine

Question 10

galen of peragmum 129 ce

Answer 10

studied in various cities. wrote huge number of texts. argued the best doctor was a philosopher. read bout him