PERPDENT Flashcards
THE FOUR BODILY HUMORS:
AIR - BLOOD
WATER - PHLEGM
FIRE - YELLOW BILE
EARTH - BLACK BILE
-BECAMES THE FIRST FOUNDATION OF
HEMEOSTASIS. IN GREEK MEDICINE
ARISTOTLE
He also stated that diseases/ illness
are caused by imbalance in humors.
ARISTOTLE
THESE EARLY GRECIAN INTELLECTUALS WERE THE MOLD OF THE
MODERN PHYSICIAN-SCIENTISTS AND ARE CONSIDERED BY MOST
SCIENTISTS TODAY TO BE THEIR PROGENITORS.
HEALERS AND PHYSICIANS
Describes himself as a
midwife which assists in
other giving birth to their
ideas.
SOCRATES
This method of
questiong drawsout
an individual’s
unexamined
assumptions which
eleminates biases.
SOCRATIC METHOD
This method is then
applied to clinical
medicine during
renaissance period.
SOCRATIC METHOD
PAIN ASSESSMENT
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Site
Onset
Characteristic
Radiation
Associations
Time course
Exacerbations/relieving factors
Severity
Where can you feel the pain?
SITE
When did the pain start? Is it sudden or gradual?
ONSET
What is the like? Dull ache, Stabbing or throbbing?
Characteristic
Does the pain radiate anywhere?
RADIATION
Any other pain symptoms associated with the pain
ASSOCIATION
Does the pain follows any patterns? Morning or
Night time?
TIME COURSE
Does anything change the pain?
Analgesics or any medications? Cold or Hot compress?
EXCACERBATIONS/RELIEVING FACTORS
How bad is the pain?
Severity
Diseases are caused naturally not
by superstitions and Gods.
HIPPOCRATES
“the father of modern medicine”.
HIPPOCRATES
the first physician to accurately describe
the symptoms of pneumonia, as well as
epilepsy in children.
HIPPOCRATES
-Notes the effect of food, of occupation, and
especially of climate in causing disease.
-He centered his philosophy upon prognosis
rather than diagnosis and he rejected many
of the accepted mystical elements of
disease
HIPPOCRATES
He is given credit for the first description of
clubbing of the fingers
chronic lung disease, lung cancer and
cyanotic heart disease
HIPPOCRATIC FINGERS
ethical practice of
medicine
The Hippocratic Oath
prImum non nocere
DO NO HARM
A collection of data which was used
by Greek healers as a reference.
HIPPOCRATIC CORPUS
The father of experimental
biology.
Galen’s system is derived from
both Aristotle and Hippocrates
data
Popularized standard humorism
until 1800’s
GALEN
Learned anatomy by experience and made
detailed notes on anatomy.
he accurately observed how larynx works
and demonstrated how lungs filled up with
air. he also innovated cataract surgery.
GALEN
He also discovered that veins doesn’t
contain air but blood.
Continues his anatomical study dissecting
animals like sheep and later on comparing
differences of anatomical structures.
His methods was then adopted in
systematized recording of data.
first teacher who used results of his own
research in teaching.
GALEN
EVOLUTION OF THE ART AND SCIENCES (JUST CLICK)
ANCIENT HEALERS
- STREAM H “ HEALERS “ - MEDICINE - BARBER SURGEONS
-STREAM S “SCIENTISTS” - ANATOMY - BIOSCIENCES
A clay tablet was excavated from an ancient city in the lower
Mesopotamian area of the Euphrates Valley, which dates from about 5000
B.C
India
Japan
China
TOOTHWORM
Out of 50 sections only one is dedicated to the diseases of the teeth written
in this medical _____
PAPYRUS
