medicine through time - medieval Flashcards
what did hippocrates theorise
that there were 4 humours that control your body
what are the 4 humours
yellow bile
black bile
phlegm
blood
who was galan
a roman doctor who followed hippocrates
who was hippocrates
a greek doctor who believed in the 4 humours
what did galen do
he used the 4 humours to think of cures for the problems and encouraged dissection
what did islamic doctors do
they were the first to make pharmacies
what was the germ theory
a theory that germs inhabit everything
who made germ theory
louis pasteur
what was a quack
a doctor that sold fake medicine
what was mainly used for medicine
herbs and oils
who was robert koch
a rival of pasteur that used germ theory to show that germs cause disease in humans
who was paul ehrlich
used salvarsan 606 to make the magic bullet that cured syphilis
what was penicillin
a medicine used in ww1 to get rid of staphylococcus germ and also kills germs in infections
what was the black death
the black death was a disease that cause buboes on the body and made you throw up and had a big chance of killing you
