Theories

Question 1

Hippocratic Theory

Answer 1

1. Body’s physical limitations mirror universe’s limitations
2. Disease causes can be identified without supernatural help
3. Health and illness indicate imbalance and balance.

Treatments aim to restore balance.

Question 2

Galenic Theory

Answer 2

1. Physicians should also be philosophers
2. Empiricism via experience, experiment, and animal anatomy
3. Perfecting Hippocrates model of the 4 humors by adding in ‘faculties’ or ‘hidden causes’

Question 3

In the late middle ages, the cultural and religious taboo against human dissection is gradually violated.
Why? (SRL)

Answer 3

Social Attitudes

Religious Attitudes

Legal Attitudes

Question 4

Why is the Fabrica so famous - 3 points

Answer 4

art

anatomical knowledge

empiricism

Question 5

Paracelsian Theory - what makes up the body

Answer 5

3 principles make up the body ; sulphur, mercury, and salt

Question 6

Harvey’s Theory of Circulation

Answer 6

1. quantitative observation of a set volume of blood
2. blood circulates throughout the body ; leaving the heart through the artieries
3. the purpose of the valves is to ensure that blood moves in the correct direction

Question 7

Cartesian Philosophy

Answer 7

1. radical dualism
2. deductive reasoning
3. body as a mechanism or automata

Question 8

Age of Enlightenment ( flatcaps)

Answer 8

liberty

progress

tolerance

fraternity

constitutional governance

seperation of church and state

Question 9

monogenism

Answer 9

all humans share common ancestry