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Wealth and medicine over time - Coggle Diagram
Wealth and medicine over time
Before 1750
Greeks
They saw gods as important to health
Has temples to the god of healing
During a illness body fluids were usually expelled-phlegm, blood,black bile and yellow bile
Developed the theory that illness was cause by having an imbalance of the four humors in your body.
Belived they could see the humors
Doctors would try to help restore the ‘balance’ by inducing vomiting or purging in a patient, or heeding them, if all treatment failed
The Romans
Roman era ‘Hippocrates’ ideas continued
The most famous Roman doctor was Galen
Galen had a new idea, that he thought that humors could be rebalanced Using ‘opposited’
Galen was also interested in anatomy and carried out dissections
Galen’s key idea which flourished throughout the Roman Empire was that of public health
Middle Ages
Christian church’s power had grown
By the 1300s the church had set up
The Black Death killed over 40 percent of the population
Different treatments for illnesses
Attempted to balance the humors
Most common remedies was bleadign a patient
Used astrology and herbs, medicines
Women were not permitted to go to university
Could not train to be professional doctors
Renaissance
Number of medical breakthroughs
Andrea Vesalius
Major achievement was to show that Galen had been wrong about elements of human anatomy
Believed that is important to understand doctors performance of juman dissections
Ambroise Paré
Major achievement: in surgery
Red-hot iron
Doctors would also pour boiling oil onto wounds because they thought it would help them to heal
Paré stop using boiling oil as he did not think this worked, and instead would use bandages