Med In Different Places Flashcards
Who was the 1st to keep health records?
Edwin Smith Papyrus
What was done in Egypt?
Bloodletting
Monthly purging
Making prosthetic devices
Embalming
Surgeons in ancient Egypt were both priests and doctors
Indian Med
The Atharvaveda
What is Atharvaveda?
Sacred text of Hinduism
One of the 1st indian text dealing with Med
Contain prescriptions for herbs
What is Ayurveda?
Large part formed by Arthavaveda
What is the medical system of India
Complete knowledge for long life
Indian Qoute
“Health and disease are not predetermined and life may be prolonged by human effort “
India practiced which surgical procedures?
Hernia
Amputations
Cosmetic surgery
Plastic surgery
Ayurvedic Med
Ayus»>Life
Veda»>knowledge
What influenced Health, character, Appearance?
Dominant Doshas
Chinese Med
Weather
Spirit
Time of the day
Can affect health
What is chinese cosmic energy?
“Qi”
Qi
Must flow freely thr the body to promote harmony
What does ying yang influence?
Appearance
Pulse
Sounds
Smells of the body
Treatment performed
Acupuncture
Herbs used
Ginseng»>Reduce stress
Liqorice»>treats muscle spams
Ginger»>treats diarrhea
Herbs prepared as teas
Who introduced western medicine to China?
Jesuits and then by Christian Medical Missionaries from
London Missionary society
Who os Sun Yat sen ?
1st graduate who led the Chinese Revolution of 1911
Hippocrates
Dominated at the beginning of the period
Hippocrates
Father of Medicine
Greatest physician
1st to attempt to separate the practice of Med from Religion and Superstition
What did Hippocrates emphasized?
Patients symptoms
Season of th yr
Patient’s living conditions
Diet
Fluid intake
Exercise habit
GALEN
Great 2nd century
Physician
Anatomist
What did he studied?
Anatomy of Animals and applied it to humans
His books used fir more than 1000 yes
What did he studied?
Anatomy of Animals and applied it to humans
His books used fir more than 1000 yes
Galen derivation of the 4 humors from the 4 elements
Earth
Air
Fire
Water
4 humors
Black bile
Yellow Bile
Blood
Phlegm
What did Galen believe about health?
Disease were caused by imbalance of the humors of the body
Galen’s greatness
Was the last important pillar in the millennium of Greek domination of the medical world
ARAB MED
Contributed to the field of med
Pharmacy
Physiology
Surgery
Greatly influenced by Hippocrates and Galen
And in turn the medical thinking of the west from the 12th to 15th centuries
Avicenna
Prince of physicians
Noted for his canon of Medicine
Zakariya Razi
Persian physician
One of the 1st to question humorism
Med in Europe
Humorism still prevailed as a theory
What happened in 1500s
Comparatively well patients were separated from the very ill
There were 2 patients to a bed
Who is the father of toxicology?
Phillipus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim
Phillipus qoute
“All substances are poisonous, there is none which is not a poison
The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy”
Andreas Versalius
Chair of surgery and Anatomy
1st master of human anatomy
Did not accept the teachings of Galen
What was the name of the book he published?
The fabric of the human Body
He was 28 when he published it
Paracelsus
Burnt Galen and Avicenna books
Shake of religious orthodoxy
Most of his influence came after his death
What did Paracelsus proposed?
Pioneered the use of chemicals and minerals in Med
Sickness and health in the body relied on the harmony of man (microcosm) & nature (macrocosm)
There must be balance of minerals
Opposed poly pharmacy
Traditional Arican Med
Healers
Ask why the patient is ill
Divibers with special powers might be asked to find the source of disease
Treatment depend on the source of problem
Massage and herbalist are common
Communal song and dance were remedies
