Medicine And The People Flashcards
What time period was Hippocrates in
Ancient Greek
What did Hippocrates do
The four 4 humours
Observing and recording
What was Hippocrates impact on medicine
The Hypocratic oath, books, scientific theory
What were the 4 humours
Yellow bile, black bile, blood, phlegm
What time period was Galen in
Ancient Rome
What did Galen do
Developed Hippocrates ideas, dissected animals, observe and record, proved the brain controlled the body and that veins and arteries carried blood
What was Galens impact on medicine
His ideas lasted for 1500years
What did Galen get wrong
Dissected animals so thought the human jaw was two bones, the heart was two parts, the liver made blood from food
What did Al Razi do
Set up a hospital, wrote 230 medical books, proved smallpox and measles were different
What did Ibn Sina do
Wrote a book covering contagious diseases, STIs, quarantining, testing medicines, hygiene and medicine.
Disagreed with Hippocrates.
Tuberculosis was contagious
What did Abulcasis do
Was a great Arab surgeon, wrote many surgical books, taught surgeons to use appropriate equipment and anaesthetics, wrote about sowing wounds and setting fractures, dentures, made plaster of Paris
How do did Christianity regress medicine
Church banned dissection of corpses, people who opposed Galen’s ideas were punished, church encouraged prayer to cure illness, illness was punishment from God
How did Christianity progress medicine
Monasteries were like hospitals, Crusades meant that people would encounter Muslim doctors who were more advanced, preserved medical books
What was the impact of Islam on medicine
Set up hospitals, removed cataracts 1000 years before Europe, first pharmacies, anaesthetics allowed Caesarians, linked hygiene and health, public baths and fountains
How many hospitals were there in Baghdad in the 1100s
There were 60 hospitals
