Medicine History Flashcards
Sacerdotal meaning
Pre- hippocratic
Gods of medicine
• Imhotep
•Aesculapius
Famous Asclepeions in the Aegean
• Titane
•Rhodes
• Kos Island (İstanköy)
•Epidarus
•Tiber
•Pergamon (Bergama)
Who found “ natural cause, natural effect “?
Hippocrates
Four elements theory:
Human is a ……. ……. of the earth
Small model
Fire element’s organs
Liver → yellow bile
Air element’s organs
Heart → blood
Water element’s organs
Brain → phlegm
Earth element’s organs
Spleen → black bile
When was Hippocratic Corpus written?
420 - 370 BC
Topics of Hippocratic Corpus
Advice on
• Gynecology
• Head Wounds
• Epilepsy
• and more
In the Medieval Medicine, diseases are considered as ……. ……..
God’s punishment
Where did Black Plague start?
China/ Central Asia
How many people died from the Black Plague?
• 1/3 of Islamic world
•%30-60 of Europe
Healer Saints
-st. Etienne (fever)
-st. Meen (scabies)
-st. Roche (plague)
-st. Clarie (eye diseases)