History - Medicine Through Time Theory

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Causes of the disease

  • punishment from God/ the result of sin

  • astrology

  • imbalance in the four humours

  • miasma


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Prevention/Treatment of the disease- Religious/Supernatural

  • prayer

  • pilgrimage

  • mass

  • fasting

  • offerings at shrines

  • touching holy relics

  • charms/amulets


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Prevention/Treatment of disease - Humoural

  • bloodletting, purging, enemas → getting rid of bad humours/balancing the humours


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Treatment/Prevention of disease - General

  • herbal remedies-> theriaca

  • regimen sanitatis


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Who developed the Four Humours Theory?

Hippocrates

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What are the four humours?

blood, choler, phlegm, black bile

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Why was the Four Humour Theory so popular?

it was supported by the Church which held immense power at the time

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What was the Four Humours Theory also linked to?

people’s personalities and the ‘elements of the universe’, seasons

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Who developed the Theory of Opposites?

Galen

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Who wrote ‘The Canon of Medicine’?

Avicenna (Ibn Sina)

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What did ‘The Canon of Medicine’ include?

Galen’s ideas of humours and anatomy, a list of 800 medical remedies, 650 recipes for drug treatments