Week 3 Flashcards
Sicilian poet, statesman, priest, philosopher, scientist and physician.
WROTE in VERSE.
Empedocles
Used treatments such as special baths, exercise and BONE-SETTING for ailing patients.
Temples and shrines dedicated to him.
Asclepions
Asclepius’s daughter.
Root of the word hygiene.
Hygiea
Asclepius symbol
The Caduceus
“Father of Western Medicine”
Convinced physicians that diseases had identifiable causes and were not due to the supernatural.
Hippocrates
Established the first true medical school at Cos.
Hippocrates
Contained at least three books on bones and joints.
Hippocratic Corpus
Oath that has taken on many revisions from its original version.
Hippocratic Oath
First physician to clearly describe techniques of spinal manipulation.
Hippocrates
Techniques of spinal manipulation in Hippocrates’s book on joints referred to as _________.
Rachiotherapy
Two types of Rachiotherapy
- Table with poles at each end. While under traction, spinal thrust administered.
- Succussion - gravity traction
“Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.”
Hippocrates aphorism
Humoral Theory - Hippocrates claimed that epilepsy was due to an excess of _______.
Phlegm
Humoral Theory - Plato claimed epilepsy was caused by a mixture of _______ and _______ that short circuited the brain.
Phlegm & Black Bile
Plato’s followers
Dogmatists
Dogmatists used extreme therapeutic measures including ______ and _________.
Purging and Bleeding
Described the punctum saliens (first signs of the embryo)
Aristotle
Spontaneous Generation
Abiogensis
Father of scientific anatomy
Performed the first recorded public dissection
Herophilus
Performed human dissections together
Herophilus and Erasistratus
After Herphilus and Ersistratus, human dissection was discontinued for 18 centuries until ________ began his work during the renaissance.
Vesalius
Human Vivisection
Dissection while still alive.
Herphilus and Erasistratus were suspected of getting criminal out of prison by royal permission.
Intellectual centre of the Greek empire.
Alexandria (present day Egypt)
Learned most of their medical knowledge from Greece, Egypt and other countries they conquered.
Romans