GCSE AQA History- Medicine through time
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- Medicine throughout time
- Medieval times AD 500- 1500
- Hippocrates (460BC - 377BC)
- Often considered the farmer of medicine
- Hippocratic oath was adapted as a guide to condct by medical profession
- Refrain from causing harm or hurting someone
- Known to reject spiritually reasonings rather than going to the gods
- Four Humours
- Idea that the four humours should be balanced
- They would treat people based off of what their four humours were like
- Importance of his work
- Showed the importance of writing observations down such as symptoms and development of diseases this allowing people to see how they can treat them.
- Moved on from believing that diseases were caused by god and only god could cure them
- Galen (130AD - 210AD)
- Roman, became most famous doctor in the Roman empire and theories dominated European medicine for 1500 years
- Galen was the originator of the experimental method in medical investigation and dissected animals in his quest to understand how the body functioned
- Some of his observations were accurate, he proves that urine came from the kidney and that arteries carry blood
- Galen accepted the Greek theory of the 4 humours as the cause of disease
- Dark ages
- Romans left Britain in AD 40, Britain went back to uncultured ways. Next 500 years known as dark ages
- Many different invasion in Britain from different people such as the Saxons and Vikings
- Development of medicine went dark
- Became dangerous to travel so there were fewer opportunities for doctors to learn or train
- Hippocrates (460BC - 377BC)
- Medieval times AD 500- 1500
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