Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Greek Medicine
- Asclepions
- Asclepios: god of healing
- Asclepion: temple (part of Ascelpeia)
- Ascelpeia: A place where ill people went to relax, built in quiet places
- Hippocrates
- 4 seasons
- Phlegm: Winter (sneezing, colds)
- Blood: Spring (nosebleeds)
- Black bile: Autumn (dry skin, vomiting and diarrhea)
- Yellow Bile: Summer (fevers, vomiting, yellow bile)
- Clinical observation
- He showed importance of observation and careful recording
- Could be used for future patients
- The Hippocratic Oath
- Ensures high standards
- Still used today
- For benefit of patient (not money)
- Who treated the sick?
- Women not allowed to study medicine
- Mothers/ wives
- Surgery
- 1200 BC: iron and steel gave doctors better equipment
- Few operations outside body (except draining of lungs for pneumonia)