ancient medicine

• Hippocrates


  460BC
• Hippocrates details


  *"Father of Modern Medicine"

  *during the Golden Age in Greece he was a scientist that believed all diseases came from natural causes

  *he also had high ideals for physicians and an oath was made that is still used today
• Hippocratic oath


  460BC
• Hippocratic oath details


  *oath taken by medical students swearing to practice medicine in an ethical way

  *promise to do their best to treat their patients and keep information confidential
• four humours
• four humours details


  *the idea that the human body was made up of four substances: blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile

  *if the humours were out of balance, this was believed to cause illness

  *the humours were also thought to be linked to the seasons
• Galen


  129 - 199
• Galen details


  *he developed the theory of opposites, which concerned how people could be treated using the four humours

  *Galen's work on anatomy was based on information gained by dissecting animals such as pigs and monkeys

  *through this work, he discovered that the brain controls speech

  *he also made mistakes: he believed that blood passed from one side of the heart to the other through tiny holes in the septum (the dividing wall between the left and right sides of the heart) when blood instead passes around the heart through veins and arteries. he also said that the human jaw bone is two separate bones, when it is actually one