medicine Flashcards
history
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Hippocrates and Galen
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Hippocrates: a Greek physician and philosopher, father of modern medicine, 4 humours
Galen: a roman physician, arteries carry blood, theory of opposites
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treatments
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blood letting, repentance, whipping themselves, rubbing dead animals
3
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believes and causes of disease
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god’s punishment, astrology, miasma, Jews
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medieval medics
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nuns/monks, surgeon barbers
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prevention
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banning public meetings, closing theatres, sweeping the streets, burring barrels of tar and sweet smelling herbs to ward off miasma, killing cats and dogs.
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black death (1348)
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an outbreak of the bubonic plague, wiped out 50% of europe, started in turkey moved to the west
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