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
What did the Hippocratic physiology relate?
The 4-elements (or Empedocles) to the 4 humours (fluids) in the body
What are the 4 humours?
- Blood
- Yellow bile
- Black bile
- Phlegm
What did the Hippocratic pathway appeal to?
Imbalance of illness
What were the phases of illness called?
Coction
What did Rudolf Virchow replace imbalance of illness with?
Cellular physiology
What did Rudolf Virchow think?
Thought your whole system isnt sick
- its because one or more of your cell types arent doing what they’re suppose to be doing
What is an example of a sickness and why only part of is effects the whole body?
- Diabetes
- The one cell type in the pancreas is not producing insulin
What was Rudolf Virchow’s take on inheritance?
All parts of the body produce seed material
- traits in offspring arise from the mixing of male and female seed material (reproduction)
Pangenesis
Was Charles Darwin’s hypothetical mechanism for heredity
- different parts of the body sent signals to your sex cells and those were passes to your offspring
What anatomy and physiology based on? (2)
- Dissections
- Vivisections
- of animals that extended to people
Dissections
Cutting into a dead animal/person
Vivisections
Cutting into a living animals/person
Why were Hippocratics unable to dissect?
They were afraid of the spirits in the corpse
Pneuma
The life giving principle of air
What are the steps to Pneuma?
Pneuma enters the lungs, is taken to the left side of the heart and is distributed by the arteries to the body to sustain it
What is the Chinese medical equivalent to pneuma?
Chi
What are lungs connected to?
Blood
What did early Hippocratics think the brain was?
A radiator that cools the blood and separates water and mucus
What did the later Hippocratics think the brain was?
Thought it was the centre of thought and feeling
