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Britain, health and the people - Coggle Diagram

- - - - supernatural
      - miasmas
      - astrology
      - Jews - poisoning water
      - punishment from god
      - imbalance of the 4 humours
    - - Hippocratic oath (hippocrates)
      - 4 humours (hippocrates)
      - Theory of opposites
    - - Developed some antispetics
      - leaching
      - Developed pain killers
      - trepanning
      - purging
      - blood letting
      - Balancing the 4 humours
      - smelling strong herbs and spices
      - Cutting open buboes
      - Draining out pus
    - - ibn nafis
        
        realized that the lungs and heart are connected
        
        discovered heart pumped blood around the body
        
        stressed the importance of clinical observation and human dissection
        
        Drew detailed diagrams to illustrate the body
        
        Wrote a book on surgical techniques, how to look after patients during and after operations
      - rhazes
        
        Hung meat up, where the meat decayed the slowest he built a hospital
        
        stressed the need to monitor symptoms
        
        distinguished between measles and smallpox through observation
      - avicenna
        
        Produced an encyclopedia of medicine called "The canon of medicine"
        
        Summarised Galen and hippocrates writers and continued them with islamic writers
        
        Medical use of drugs
        
        His encyclopedia included 760 different drugs
    - - trepanning
      - barber surgeons
      - Amputations
      - Attempted some internal surgeries
      - heal wounds and broken bones
      - Carried out external surgery
- - - - Anatomy background
      - disproved Galen's theory of anatomy (pigs, dogs and monkeys)
      - Discovered a better understanding of the body