Zusammenfassung der Ressource
ANCIENT GREEK MEDICINE
- ASCLEPIUS
- GOD OF HEALING
- SUPERNATURAL APPROACH TO MEDICINE
- TEMPLES CALLED ASCLEPIONS
- PEOPLE STAYED IN THEM WHEN ILL
- VISITORS TO UNDERGO MANY TREATMENTS
Anmerkungen:
- -CEREMONIAL WASHING IN SEA
-MAKE SACRIFICE TO GOD
- HAD TO SLEEP IN BUIDING CALLED ABATON
Anmerkungen:
- An abaton was a narrow building with a roof but no solid walls so that it was open to air
- CURED THEM WHILST SLEEPING IN DREAM
- SUCCESS STORIES INSCRIPTED IN WALLS
- PRIESTS DID WARD ROUNDS
Anmerkungen:
- EG. administrating ointments, peforming rituals involving placing snakes on patients.
(snake sacred animal of Asclepius)
- ASCLEPIUS HAD TWO DAUGHTERS
Anmerkungen:
- Also involved in healing.
Names: Hygeia and Panacea
- WOMEN ALLOWED TO BE DOCTORS