Medicine through time Flashcards
Who was Hippocrates?
Hippocrates was a Greek doctor who discovered the four humours
What are the four humours?
The four humours are-
Black bile
Yellow bile
Phlegm
Blood
Who was Galen?
Galen was a Roman doctor and he built on Hippocrates work
What did Galen do?
Galen was the first doctor to encourage dissections even when it was illegal.
Used the theory of opposites
What were medieval beliefs?
Beliefs-
4 humours
miasma (bad air)
power of God
What were the treatments of the four humours?
Bleeding
Purging
Diet change
Exercise
Renaissance beliefs
people questioned accepted ideas, searched for evidence and experimented with new ideas.
Started to question the role of God
Who is Louis Pasteur?
Louis Pasteur created the Germ Theory
When was the Germ theory created?
1861
How did Pasteur come up with the Germ Theory?
Pasteur proved the Germ theory by collecting mountain air and village air and proving what one was the cleanest
What do Doctors still use today?
Hippocratic oath
What was the Hippocratic oath?
The Hippocratic oath was when doctors promised confidentiallity for patients
Who did poor people go and see?
Wise women
Barber surgeon
What was a barber surgeon?
A barber surgeon was a barber and a surgeon at the same time so they could do both jobs
What were supernatural and natural treatments?
Astrology
Praying
Trepanning
Bloodletting
Purging
Vesalius
Ransacked cemeteries so he was able to dissect bodies
Proved Galen wrong over 300 times, he corrected the mistakes
What did Vesalius do?
Invited people to observe his dissections so they could ask questions to support him
William Harvey
Key member of the royal college of surgeons
became the royal doctor for king James I and Charles I
What did Harvey do?
Collected bodies from the battlefields and found out veins were linked in one system
Investigated anatomy
