Lecture 4: Role Of Greece and Roman Empire Flashcards
1
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4 humors?
A
- blood
- phlegm
- yellow bile
- black bile
2
Q
Asclepius (son of apollo)
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- espoused as first physician
- healer God
3
Q
enkoimesis?
A
dreamlike state of induced sleep not unlike anaesthesia during which patients would receive guidance from a deity or cured by surgery
4
Q
perspective of illness and disease in Ancient Greece
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- illness and disease were divine punishments
- healing was a gift from gods
- physicians would reconcialitate patients with gods and exorcise
5
Q
humoral theory
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- balance of the 4 humors was neccessary for health
- too hot/cold, too dry/wet disturbed health
6
Q
humorism emphasized on what conditions
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- environment
- local water sup[ply
- direction of wind
- patient’s compliance, belief and mindset
- respect for the physician
7
Q
intertwined the spiritual and the physical
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ancient greece
