HCARE_LEC1 Flashcards
● Understood the need for hygiene
● Developed medical skills
Babylonians
● Developed a variety of pharmaceutical preparations
● Constructed earth privies and public drainage systems
● Established rudimentary baths and toilets in dwelling places
● Developed surgical skills
Egyptians
● Believed diseases were caused by malevolent
spirits or bad luck; thus were the presence of
Shamans who were believed to able to
communicate with the spirit world and treat sickness
Indigenous & Tribal Societies
● Stressed prevention of disease through regulation of personal and community hygiene, reproductive and maternal health, isolation of lepers and other “unclean conditions”, and family and personal sexual conduct as part of religious practice.
Hebrews (Hebrew Mosaic Law)
● Linked health to environment
● Wealthy people valued personal cleanliness,
exercise, diet and sanitation
● Came up with the concept of the “Four Humors”:___,___,___,___
Greeks; phlegm, blood, yellow bile and black bile
____contributed largely to the professionalism in medicine; he established the Hippocratic School of Medicine, which was the first to use terms we still used today such as: acute, chronic, endemic, epidemic, paroxysms, and exacerbation.
Hippocrates
● A greek physician of the Age of Percles, who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine
● Often referred to as the father of modern
medicine
● Noted the effect of food, occupation, and especially climate in causing disease
Hippocrates
● In general, were more focused on preventing
diseases rather than curing them
Romans
a greek physician who migrated to Rome; his works became the foundation for the study of Human Anatomy
Galen
● This period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century
● The period after the fall of the Roman Civilization
● (Feudalism)
● The only unifying force was Christianity
● Poor sanitary conditions
● Increase in communicable diseases (cholera, bubonic plague, small pox)
● The most notorious epidemic: the Black Plague also known as Bubonic Plague
● ______was the most important disease of this
period; exclusion of lepers from the community at large
Middle Ages or Medieval Period; Leprosy
method of separating the lepers from those unaffected by the disease which is still one of the public health interventions being
practiced until today.
Quarantine or isolation
● Schola Medicana Salernitana
● The world’s first medical school
Salerno Medical School
known as the “Father of Pediatrics”; wrote the book “The Diseases of Children”
Al-Razi
the author of “The Canon of Medicine”,
which became a major reference book for medical schools worldwide until the middle of the 16th
century
Avicenna
● The rise of scholars
what period?
● ____ - broadened the public’s understanding of how epidemics or infections were spread
● ____ - wrote on the “Structure of the
Human Body”
● ____ - did an intensive study of the human circulatory system and properties of blood
● ____ - initiated a new
thinking on diseases and how they can be caused
by bacteria and microorganisms through a crude
microscope
Renaissance Period; Girolamo Francastoro, Andreas Vesalius, William Harvey, Antonie van Leuweenhoek,
