Hippocrates

Question 1

Hippocrates believed in the four humours, what were they?

Answer 1

Blood
Phlegm
Yellow Bile
Black Bile

Question 2

If humours were unbalanced what did it mean?

Answer 2

Person was ill. Humours need to be balanced to be healthy

Question 3

How could you ‘cure’ someone if their humours were unbalanced? How for phlegm, blood, black bile?
(P: EP B: BL BB: POO

Answer 3

Balancing them
Phlegm: Extract phlegm
Blood: Bloodletting
Black bile: Eat laxative foods

Question 4

How long did treatments related to the four humours last? What does this show overall?
(Most until R____ and some until 1_th century)

Answer 4

Most began to be challenged in the Renaissance, some carried on until the 19th century. Shows continuity

Question 5

What was clinical observation?

Answer 5

It was the process of diagnosing and treating a patient

Question 6

What was the Hippocratic Corpus?

Answer 6

It was a series of texts by Hippocrates to show the treatments to illnesses based upon his own observations

Question 7

What was the Hippocratic Oath?

Answer 7

It was an oath for doctors to properly help, treat and diagnose with 100% effort

Question 8

What did he believe about illness?
(NC so needed a NT)

Answer 8

It had a natural cause and therefore needed to be treated naturally