Medicine Overview Flashcards
Eygptians
1) blockage of the channels (Nile), God’s angry S
2) Remedies, charms, religion S/N
3) simple: baths/ toilets, personal hygiene (God’s)
Greeks
1) inbalance humours (logical), God’s angry S/N
2) Balancing/ opposites, asclepion S/N
3) good: healthy, active lifestyle (seasons), cleanliness & centralised government
Romans
1) inbalance of humours/ evil spirits S/N
2) continuity; Greeks
3) reformation of public health: sewers/ water system (drinking water sepetate; cleanliness)
Dark Ages (150-1050AD)
Reason 1—chaos in western europe:
- war
- governement
- trade/ travel
Dark Ages (150-1050AD)
Reason 2—growing power of Christian church:
- churches
- tradition (hindered mind-sets)
- education
- superstition
Prehistoric
1) evil spirits S
2) trepanning, remedies, charms S/N
3) NO public health
“How far did religion help medicine?”
FOR:
- asclepions
- mumification
- placebo effect S/N
- religious libraries
AGAINST:
- human atonomy (dead corpses couldn’t be studied)
- language barrier
- spiritual (supernatural)/ God’s plan
- medical monastries (didn’t accept people with diseases/ mental health concerned)
“Why were Galen’s ideas ised for so long?”
see cards on Black Death
1) Reason 1’s
2) Reason 2’s
“How far was the progress made in medicine by the Romans continued in the Middle Ages in England?”
(progress, sway to not much)
LOTS:
- N 4 humours kept
- some ideas of cleanliness (monastries)
LACK OF:
- public health decayed—NO sewers/ water pipes
- vermin=black death
- no innovations; humours continued
