Lecture 2: EARLY CIVILIZATIONS Flashcards
4 Earliest Civilizations in medicine?
1.Mesopotamia
2.Egypt
3.India(indus valley)
4.China
- western asia asia between tigris and euphrates river systems
- …
- north-western regions ofSouth Asia(Afghanistan, through much ofPakistan, and into western and north-westernIndia)
Matching Questions
- Anatomy
- Public Health
- First Medical Prescriptions
- Acupuncture
- Clubbing
- Artemisia
- First Diagnostic Handbook
- Practice of Diagnosis and Physical Examination
- Prognosis
- Clinical Diagnosis
- 3,7,8,9-Mesopotamia
- 1,2,10-Egypt
- 4,6-China
- 5-Greece
Matching Questions
- no distinction between magic and rational science
- magical Formulars and medicinal treatment
- Asu & Asipu
- Ayurveda
- Imhotep
- 1,2,3- Mesopotamia
- 4- Indus Valley
- 5- Egypt
Ayurvaveda meaning?
complete knowledge of long life
a medical system of zambia
The Egyptian Medicine-Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus was founded by?
Described the brain
Imhotep
any 5 remedies used in Early Civilizations of medicine?
- Herbs
- Animal Products
- Minerals/Soil
- simple surgeries
- mental therapy, including documentation of dreams and hallucinations to try and depict their meaning
Documents During Early Civilizations
- Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus
- Kahun’s Gynaecological Papyrus
- Eber’s Papyrus
all Egyptian Documents
- described the brain
* Examination findings , Diagnosis, Treatment, Prognosis of various ailments - Treatment of women’s complaints and Problems of infertility
- Enemas(Shepherd of the Anus);
Chief Dentists and Physicians, Lady overseer (female Physicians who trained midwives)
Define ASU and ASIPU
- ASU- a herbalist similar to modern day physicians
- ASIPU- an exorcist healer and usually a family profession passed down generations
Dark Ages?
- historical timeline around the Middle ages
- asserts that a demographic, cultural, and economic deterioration occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire.
- The fall of the Roman Empire
- The role of the Church and medicine.
Traditional medicine definition?
*** health practices, approaches, knowledge and beliefs **incorporating plant, animal and mineral basedmedicines, spiritual therapies, manual techniques and exercises, applied singularly or in combination **to treat, diagnose and prevent illnesses **or maintain well-being
The first indian text to deal with medicine was
- Athurvaveda
contains prescriptions of herbs for various ailments
Charakasamhita
health and disease cannot be predetermined and life can be prolonged through human effort
the susrutasamhita
purpose of medicine is to cure the sick, protect the healthy and prolong life
