Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Galen
- Observations
- Galen emphasize the importance
of "Hippocrates" method. He told
the doctors to observe, record &
use their experience of past cases
to decide how to treat the illness
- Four Humours
- He believed in the Four
Humours. Galen used opposites
to treat the Humours
- Example- Chili and Phlegm
- Galen importance to
medicine
- Old & New Combined
- Combing his own with
hippocrates
- The Church
- The Church loved him! He said the
body fitted together as a perfect
whole. This fitted with God
designing the body
- Books
- Wrote 60 books, all were
influetial
- New ideas &
Methods
- New idea 1
- He encouraged
dissection & not to take
things at face value
- New idea 2
- Brain controls the
body, not the heart
- New idea 3
- Arteries and veins carry blood