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Medicine over time - Coggle Diagram

- - - - supernatural causes
      - natural causes
    - - rituals
      - prayers
      - herbs
      - basic surgery
    - - High priests
      - women
      - healers and caregivers
  - - - Asclepius
    - - phlegm
      - black bile
      - yellow bile
      - blood
      - illness causeb by inbalance of the humors
    - - vomiting
      - purging
      - bleeding
    - - Father of madicine
      - Wrote many books
      - looked for natural causes of illness
  - - - Belived in the four humors
      - Humors rebalanced using opposites
      - Interested in anatomy
        
        Carried out dissections
    - - Sewers and aqueducts
      - Public bath-houses
      - clean water
      - clean cities
  - - - power had grown
      - set up univerities
    - - spread from Asia to Europe
      - treatments for illnesses
        
        bleeding a patient
        
        astrology
        
        herbal medicines
    - - not permitted to go to univerities
      - couldn't be doctors
      - key care providers
      - midwives
    - - medical practices were far more advanced
      - Arab doctors belived theory was more important than practice
  - - - 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
    - - Major achivement
        
        In surgery
      - Used bandages
      - Tied the end of the arteries with silk thread
    - - Understood
        
        Circulation of blood in human body
        
        Blood re-circulated around the body by the heart
      - Proved
        
        Heart acted as a plum
        
        Blood is carried away from the heart by the arteries
        
        Returned to it by the vains
    - - Continued to cauterize as this did helped to stop infections
      - Didn't use antiseptict or disinfectants
    - - Catastrophic plauge epidemic hit London
  - - - Focus on scientific explanations
    - - Used their own
        
        Observations
        
        Explanations
      - Started proving old ideas wrong
    - - Microscope
    - - no longer dominated education
- - - - inoculation
      - Edward Jenner
        
        Preventative treatment
        
        vaccination
    - - began to make an impact
      - Elizabeth Blackwell
      - Florence Naghtingale
      - Mary Seacole
    - - 'Germ theory'
      - Robert Koch
        
        Took Pasteur's studies to medicine