Medicine Flashcards
(27 cards)
Why was Hippocrates important?
He is the founder of medicine and was regarded as the great physician of all time
What did Hippocrates use to diagnose people?
The four humours
What did Hippocrates encourage doctors to look for?
Natural treatments
What did Hippocrates create to give people confidence in doctors?
an oath
What are the four humour?
blood, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm
What are some of the supernatural causes they believed?
God is the cause, position of the planets, miasma which is bad air
What were some of the natural treatments?
herbal remedies, blood letting, diet
Who treated the sick ?
lady of the manor, monks, doctors but very few in number, care in the hiem
What were the two types of plagues?
bubonic and pneumonic
What did bubonic plague Do?
make u feel cold and tired bubors appeared in the armpits and groin
What did pneumonia Do?
attacked the victims lungs cause them to cough up blood and they would die more rapidly
What were some of the treatments of plague?
eating cool things, lighting fire in the room, carrying herbs and spices
What does renaissance mean?
rebirth
when did the medical renaissance happen?
1500 to 1700
Who was thomas sydenham?
he was part of a belief called humanjsn which was a move away from the idea God sent illness
What did sydenham encourage patients to have?
airy bedrooms, cold drinks and light blankets
Who was Versailles?
he proved Galen was wrong. he did dissection to do this
What did he prove?
human had bone was made out from one bone. breastbone had three parts. blood does not flow to the heart through invisible holes
Who was William harvey
Also proved Galen wrong after studying how the heart of works
What did people know about Harvey
blood had a one way system and the blood was not manufactured by the liver
Who was Edward Jenner?
He was a man that found a cure for small pox using a vaccine which he injected into a young boy
Who was john snow?
published a book in 1849 saying cholera was spread through water.
Who was Pasteur?
published get theory in 1861 suggest microbes are the cause of disease
Who was Koch?
intrested in pasteurs work investigated tb
