Pgs 1 And 2 Flashcards
What are the 2 major manuscripts?
Ebers papyrus
Hippocrates
Content of ebers papyrus
This contains content from VI DYNASTY .
Contains 700+ remedies for various diseases using medical plants
Eg - castor oil as laxative- still used today
Info in Hippocrates was borrowed from and by who
Greek borrowed info from the ebers papyrus and created a manuscript called HIPPOCRATES
Father of medicine
Hippocrates
Hippocrates continents
Doctors take the Hippocrates oath
Contains 400 medical plant description also described in earlier book
Who are the major authros and their books
Theophrastus
Dioscorides
Galen of pergoman
Interactive schools
Comstatine , the african contributer
Theophrastus book name
Inquiry into plants
Dioscorides book name
On medical matters
Theophrastus
father of botany
student of Aristotle,
first to write the book about the morphological similarities of plants which helped develop classification system of plant families
Discorides
Greek physician and pharmacologist
used ancient egypt and greek sources
Named and described 600 med plants and their therapeutic uses
Galen of pergoman
expanded upon the greek dioscorides and developed an encylopedia on greek and roman medicalteaching, focusing on pharmacology, plant drugs and use. Used till today
When were medical schools invented
After the fall of western roman empire, religious orders in europe established medical schools, medical plant gardens and copied early medical manuscripts .
What were the most innovative schools?
Salerno , followed by schools at montpellier, oxford uni , university of paris and u of bologna
What did these schools helped with?
helped retain past knowledge rather then new discoveries
Constataine the african
the major contributerto retaining past medicalteachings.
Hememorised islamic medical texts and translated it to latin for salerno school and
helped reintroduce and expand on greek-Roman knowledge by introducing new ideas from the islamic medicine
