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Greek Medicine
- Hippocrates
- Hippocratic Corpus
- Observations
- Hippocrates used to observe his patients
to get a better understanding of their
symptoms & therefore how to treat them
- Hippocrates used to observe his patients
to get a better understanding of their
symptoms & therefore how to treat them
- Natural Cures
- Many of the cures used by Hippocrates and
other Greek doctors were natural, using
herbs and other ingrediants to form cures for
all sorts of illnesses
- Many of the cures used by Hippocrates and
other Greek doctors were natural, using
herbs and other ingrediants to form cures for
all sorts of illnesses
- Four Humours Theory
- If the fluids in the body were out of
balance then a person would become ill
- The body was thought to be
made up of 4 fluids
- Blood
- Yellow Bile
- Pheglem
- Black Bile
- Blood
- If the fluids in the body were out of
balance then a person would become ill
- Hippocratic Corpus
- The Ascelpion
- Priests were the ones to
administer cures NOT the Gods
- The God Asclepius would appear when the patient
was sleeping and cure them
- The God Asclepius would appear when the patient
was sleeping and cure them
- Priests encouraged the ill to sleep
in the temple of Asclepius
- Mixture of Supernatural &
Natural Cures
- Supernatural Cures
- Gifts to the Gods
- Charms
- Prayers
- Gifts to the Gods
- Natural Cures
- Rest
- Honey
- Herbs
- Rest
- Supernatural Cures
- Priests were the ones to
administer cures NOT the Gods
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