Medicine through time - medieval period

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Hippocrates

  • 4 humours

  • Hippocratic oath

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Galen

  • theory of opposites

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Cause of disease

  • miasma (smell)

  • God

  • The four humours

  • Astrology

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The Black Death

  • broke out between 1348 and 1350

  • Believed between 1/3 to ½ of the population were killed

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Treatment/prevention of disease

  • praying, pilgrimage or confession of sins

  • Balancing humours

  • Blood letting, purging

  • Purifying air

  • Herbal remedies