Greek Medicine Flashcards
1
Q
3 important things
A
first to study causes of diseases
research helped eliminate supersitions
sanitary pratices were associated witht he spread of disease
2
Q
What did Hippocrates do?
A
no dissection, only observations
took careful notes of signs/symptoms of diseases
disease was not caused by supernatural forces
3
Q
Hippocrates was considered as the father of medicine, why
A
he wrote standards of ethics which is the basis for today’s medical ethics
