ANCIENT GREEK MEDICINE

1. SUPERNATURAL APPROACH TO MEDICINE

1. PEOPLE STAYED IN THEM WHEN ILL
2. VISITORS TO UNDERGO MANY TREATMENTS

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

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   • An abaton was a narrow building with a roof but no solid walls so that it was open to air

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

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• Also involved in healing. Names: Hygeia and Panacea