Hippocrates

• What theory did Hippocrates come up with?

  The theory of The Four Humours
• What were the four humours?
• What were the four humours?

  Black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, blood
• What was blood associated with?


  Summer, fire
• What was black bile (poo) associated with?

  Earth, autumn
• What was yellow bile associated with?

  Air, Spring
• What was Phlegm associated with?

  Water, winter
• What is clinical observation?

  A method of treating and diagnosing a patient by going to their bedside and observing their symptoms, making a diagnosis based off of their personal symptoms and then treating them.
• Who carried on Hippocrates' work?

  Galen
• What Oath did Hippocrates come up with and what does it mean?

  He came up with the Hippocratic Oath, which is still sworn today, that states that doctors will use any means necessary to try and save a patient and treat them.
• What type of theory was the Four humours?

  A natural theory