Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Prehisotric Medicine and the Ancient
Civilizations
- Egyptians
- They belived in
unblocking chanels in
the body
- Used
amulets
in order
to help
heal the
body
- Prayed to different gods in
order to get different types
of healing
- Romans
- The Romans believed in
having a system to ensure
public health
- Aqueducts in order to transport clean water
- Public toilets to keep the streets clean
- Bathhouses to keep clean
- They also had hospitals in order to care for the sick
- Greeks
- Hippocrates
- The Four Humors
- Blood
- Spring
- Air
- Yellow Bile
- Summer
- Fire
- Black Bile
- Autumn
- Earth (soil)
- Phlegm
- Winter
- Water
- He is often called the father of
medicine because of the work
he did
- His work was not
challenged for 2000 years,
as they were thought of
as logical
- He taught physicians
in his home
- Due to his documentation of
skin colour and symptoms,
we know he treated
diseases such as pneumonia,
tetanus, tuberculosis,
arthritis, mumps and
malaria
- He was one of
the first
physicians to
wash his hands
before surgery
- He battled the
plague in Athens
for 3 years
- Galen
- He belived in treating with
opposites, such as using
cold to treat warmth
- He wrote many books
- He believed in observing the body as a
whole and not just focusing on specific
parts, as the whole body was connected
- He believed in proceduers such as
blood letting, because he believed
that illnesses were caused by an
imbalence of the four humors
- He built upon the theory of the four humors
- They went to Asclepions
in order to try and pray
their illnesses away