The Four Humors and Galenic Medicine – Flashcards
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Ancient Greece and Egypt thought about sickness
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as a religious matter
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Who was the father of medicine?
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Aesculapius
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What symbol of medicine is he recognized holding?
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a staff with a snake
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Aesculapius has two daughters named what
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Hygiea and Panacea
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Hygiea represents
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Hygiene- to prevent illness
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Panacea represents
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curative medicine
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What did Hippocrates believe?
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that we didn't need the gods to operate the world
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He believed that what belonged to the natural world?
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illness, health, and the body
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What is the significance of separating medicine and the gods?
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gives humans the power to take control and learn how to deal with the body
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what is the body of work contributed to the body
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Hippocratic corpus
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Hippocrates was a
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teacher and physician
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Hippocratic corpus presumes that
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bodily processes, health, and disease can be explained in the same way as natural phenomenon
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epilepsy used to be known as the
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sacred disease
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Greek physicians thought that dissections
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were wrong
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Greek physicians discovered the inside of the body by
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using analogies from the natural world
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According to the Hippocratic Corpus health =
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the equilibrium of fluids within the body
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According to the Hippocratic Corpus illness =
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the imbalance of fluids within the body
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How did treatment help the imbalance of fluids?
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release of built up humors or through diet and regiment
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fluids were known as
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humors
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treat with contraries also known as the
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opposite
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Sanguineous, blood, air, spring
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hot and moist
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Phelgmaticus, phlegm, water, winter
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moist and cold
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Melacholicus, black bile, earth, autumn
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dry and cold
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Cholericus, yellow bile, fire, summer
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dry and hot
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Galen was apart of what empire
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roman
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Galen thought of himself as
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perfecting Hippocrates's work
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Galen thought that a disease causing imbalance came from
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a specific organ
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Galen's thoughts about organs allowed for
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greater precision and was treated with contraries
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The model of the body passed up to the 16th century was based off of
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Galen's models
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Galen is characterized as a
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Egomaniac- completely full of himself
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Galen influenced medical theory and practice until the
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nineteenth century
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Galen reflected beliefs compatible w/ how many gods
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one
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Galen declared that the body was an instrument of the
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soul
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Galen insisted that all of his tools were particular, and forged
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the first surgical steel
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only roman doctors ordered
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tools made more surgery
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What allowed Galen to discover the inner workings of the body?
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Gladiators
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What else did Galen study besides Gladiators?
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animals
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What method did Galen use that's used today?
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observed, examined, diagnosed, and provide a cure
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Who did Galen care for?
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the roman emperor and his family
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complex instruments came from
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child birth
