Greeks

Question 1

what god did the greeks go to for medical help?

Answer 1

Asclepion

Question 2

who was the most famous greek doctor?

Answer 2

Hippocrates

Question 3

what impacts did Hippocrates have?

Answer 3

• the hippocratic oath
  -recording of symptoms
  -the hippocratic corpus
  -promoted the four humours

Question 4

True or false, greek doctors said that asclepion was the best healer

Answer 4

false, they said that nature is the best healer

Question 5

how did doctors treat patients using the four humours?

Answer 5

they balanced the natural heat of the patient.
-cure a cold by keeping patient warm
- treat a fever (hot and wet) by keeping patient dry
-they used bleeding and purging to rebalance two of the humours - blood and black bile.

Question 6

what did the greeks do if the doctors could not heal them?

Answer 6

they would appeal to their gods and go to places like an asclepion.
after staying a night and drinking potions in the baton of the temple Hygeia and Panacea (asclepius’ daughters) came with two holy snakes and healed patients.

Question 7

what actually is the four humours theory?

Answer 7

it was the most dominant and important theory in Europe to fight disease until the mid 1800s.
the four humours within the body had to be balanced or the person would become unwell.

Question 8

what were the four humours?

Answer 8

blood (air) black bile (earth) phlegm (water) and yellow bile (fire)

Question 9

so how did doctors treat patients?

Answer 9

they advised people to exercise or change their diet however they also practiced bloodletting which was very dangerous.