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Medicine over time - Coggle Diagram
Medicine over time
Before 1750
Ancient Times
Serious illnesses-medicine men
Midwifery and basic care were left to women
Illnesses
supernatural causes
natural causes
Treatment
rituals
prayers
herbs
basic surgery
Ancient Egypt
High priests
women
healers and caregivers
Ancient Greeks
god of healing
Asclepius
theory of the four humours
phlegm
black bile
yellow bile
blood
illness causeb by inbalance of the humors
Restore the balance
vomiting
purging
bleeding
Hippocrates
Father of madicine
Wrote many books
looked for natural causes of illness
The Romans
Hippocrates' ideas continued
Galen
Belived in the four humors
Humors rebalanced using opposites
Interested in anatomy
Carried out dissections
Public health
Sewers and aqueducts
Public bath-houses
clean water
clean cities
Middle ages
Christian church
power had grown
set up univerities
Black Death
spread from Asia to Europe
treatments for illnesses
bleeding a patient
astrology
herbal medicines
Women
not permitted to go to univerities
couldn't be doctors
key care providers
midwives
Islamic scholars
medical practices were far more advanced
Arab doctors belived theory was more important than practice
The renaissance
Medical breakthroughs
Andreas Vesalius
Major achivements
realized that Galen was wrong about the four humors
Belived human dissections were important
His work led to much better understanding of human anatomy
Ambroise Paré
Major achivement
In surgery
Used bandages
Tied the end of the arteries with silk thread
After 1750