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History- Ancient Medicine
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History- Ancient Medicine
Prehistoric
Key words
Trephining
Cutting a small hole in the skull and removing a piece to let out evil spirits
Medicine men
Could understand and deal with the spirits
No conclusions are certain
Evidence from fossils and Aborigines
Health of people
Physically fit
Good teeth
Short
Women died before men
Childbirth
Most died before 40
Osteoarthritis
Causes
Evil spirits
Broken bones from accidents
Pregnancy
Pain from hard work
Lack of hygiene
Who treated illness
Medicine men
Women
Treatments
Charms to ward off evil sirits
Herbal remedies
Basic surgery such as setting broken bones
Trephining
Egyptian
Anatomy
Heart controlled the body
Blood carried air and water
Channels
Recognized heart, blood, liver, brain, and lungs.
Who treated illness
Priests
Encouraged cleanliness
Specialist doctors employed by the rich
Family (especially women)
Causes
Gods
Blocked Channel Theory
Rotting (undigested) food let off gases that caused disease and blocked the channels in the body
People ate healthier diets
Treatments
Herbal remedies
Charms
Simple surgery on the surface of the body
Egyptian life and medicine
Wealthy and powerful pharoahs
Could employ priests as specialist doctors
Hieroglyphics
Writing down ideas
Priests had to be clean
Disease didn't spread as easily
Embalming for the after life
Learnt about anatomy
Farmers used water channels
Developed channel theory
Trade
Herbs
Greeks
Four Humours
Yellow bile
Summer
Fire
Change in diet
Black bile
Autumn
Earth
Take something to make you sick
Blood
Spring
Air
Bleeding
Phlegm
Winter
Water
Honey
Causes
Gods
Imbalance of the Four humours
Treatments
Balance the humours
Charms
Careful observation
Asclepion
Herbal remedies
Hippocrates
Alexandria
Centre of medical knowledge
University
Library
Romans
Who treated illnes
Trained doctors
Women
Salus
Goddess of health
Causes
Gods
Four humours
Public Health
Aqueducts
For the rich and the army
Stored in reseviour
Baths
Used once a week
Drains and sewers
into rivers
Needed healthy army
Practice for doctors
Treatments
Same as Greeks
Theory of opposites
Galen built on Hippocrates theory of the Four Humours
Army had hospitals and doctors/surgeons
Bleeding
Amputations
Trephining
Doctors recommended exercise and changes on diet or prescribed herbs (opposites)
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