The Ancient World - MT1 - Part 3 Flashcards
Nepotist
The practice among those with power or influence of favouring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs
What legend was said about Hippocrates and honey?
Honey on the hives growing on his tomb had healing qualities
What was Hippocrates begged to do?
Cure the king of Persia
- but was loyal to the Greeks so sent the gifts away
What did Hippocrates cure Democritus of?
His madness
What was Hippocrates writings called?
Hippocratic collection
- or Hippocratic corpus
Does most of Hippocrates writing still exist?
Yes
How many authors did Hippocrates have?
19
What was the underlying rule for Hippocratic medicine?
Treat all patients the same
What did the Hippocratics reject in medicine? (2)
- Religion
2. Supernatural
What did Hippocratics accept when the patient died?
That is was to the fault of the physician
What was epilepsy called in the ancient? And why?
- Called the sacred disease
- They couldn’t explain it
What were Hippocratics suspicious of?
Broad theories
- theories that explained everything
What did Hippocratics have?
High ethical standards
- did not try and deceive their patients
What was the Hippocratic approach?
If they did not know how to cure something, they wouldnt do treatments just for the sake of treatments
What was the Hippocratic method? (5)
- Observe all using your senses
- open to clues given off of by the patients
- pragmatic approach - Gather observations without prejudice of theory if expectation
- had the patient help them - Studied the patient rather than the disease
- age, diet, sleeping habits and dreams - Evaluated honestly
- communicated with the patient - Assisted nature to heal the patient
- therapies were gentle
