3. Greeks Medicine

Who treated illness
1. Trained doctors
2. Priest in the Asclepeia
3. Family
What did they think caused diseases?
1. Gods
2. Four humours
  1. Yelllow bile
  2. Black bile
  3. Blood
  4. Phlegm
Treatment/Prevention
1. Herbal remedies
2. Charms
  1. Superstition
3. Balance the humours
4. Carefully observation
5. Rest, improved diet and exercise
6. Visit the temple of Asclepius
Key ideas
1. Four humours
  1. The humour have to be perfectly balance inorder the person to be healthly
    1. If not – taking in or bleeding out to correct the balance of the humours
2. Asclepuis
  1. One Visit the Temple of Asclepuis could cure you.
3. Careful observation and recording symptons
Example of change
1. Observe and record
2. Asclepius
3. Four humors
Example of continuity
1. Superstitions
2. Continued search for natural cause
3. No idea of the real cause of disease
Key figures
1. Hippocrates
  1. Wrote book
    1. Hippocratic Collection
  2. Developed theory of the four humours
  3. Promoted natural treatments
  4. Hippocratic oath
    1. Used today

Resource summary

	Created by Evangeline Taylor over 10 years ago