ANCIENT GREEK MEDICINE

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What medicine was like in ancient Greece
Alison Coates
Mind Map by Alison Coates, updated more than 1 year ago
Alison Coates
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ANCIENT GREEK MEDICINE
  1. ASCLEPIUS
    1. GOD OF HEALING
      1. SUPERNATURAL APPROACH TO MEDICINE
      2. TEMPLES CALLED ASCLEPIONS
        1. PEOPLE STAYED IN THEM WHEN ILL
          1. VISITORS TO UNDERGO MANY TREATMENTS

            Annotations:

            • -CEREMONIAL WASHING IN SEA -MAKE SACRIFICE TO GOD
            1. HAD TO SLEEP IN BUIDING CALLED ABATON

              Annotations:

              • An abaton was a narrow building with a roof but no solid walls so that it was open to air
            2. CURED THEM WHILST SLEEPING IN DREAM
              1. SUCCESS STORIES INSCRIPTED IN WALLS
                1. PRIESTS DID WARD ROUNDS

                  Annotations:

                  • EG. administrating ointments, peforming rituals involving placing snakes on patients. (snake sacred animal of Asclepius)
                  1. ASCLEPIUS HAD TWO DAUGHTERS

                    Annotations:

                    • Also involved in healing. Names: Hygeia and Panacea
                  2. WOMEN ALLOWED TO BE DOCTORS
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