Roman and Arabic Medicine Flashcards
First greek doctor to go to Rome; well adept as a surgeon; doesn’t use anesthesia; The executioner
Argathus of Sparta
Father of molecular medicine
Theory of disease based on the flow of atoms through pores
Advocate of GOOD RAPPORT
Asclepiades of sparta
Unified Rome after the death of Julius Ceasar
First Roman emperor
Professional military medical corps
Augustus
Roman medical school:
Oldest medical sect of antiquity; anatomy and physiology oriented
Dogmatist
Roman medical school:
Experimentation and observation, documentation, nature causes disease
Epiricist
Roman medical school:
Systemic in their work; work done is well-documented, human body is made up of atoms and pores
Methodist
Roman medical school:
Selected from each sect the opinions that seemed the most probable; get the best of what they learned in medical school
Eclectic
Most important contribution of roman medicine
Public health and sanitation
- Installed drains and sewers for sewage disposal
- Public baths for both rich and poor
- flushing toilets and running water
- construction of hospitals with heating and ventilation
- isolation of infectious patients
Doctor to Nero’s armies
Studied more herbs that hippocrates
Pedanius Disocorides
Famous Roman physician who theorized that diseases are caused by miniature creatures floating in the air and enter the body
Marcus Terentus Varro
Greek Islamic Medicine
Yunani Medicine
Greatest doctor in Islam
Supposedly the father pediatrics (measles and small pox)
Treated for free
Rhases
Islam Prince of Physicians
Used pulse as lie detector
Avicenna
First parasitologist because of discovery of cause of scabies an dpericarditis
Avenzoar
Most famous Jewish physician in arabic medicineTranslated Canon of avicenna to Hebrew
Morning prayer
Maimonides
