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= cutting holes in skulls
-done w/ flint knife of shark's tooth
-multiple healed incisions found
-procedure last >1hr
-skull piece was valued as amulets and worn disease prophylaxis |
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| indications for trepanned skull |
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-convulsions (infants)/epilepsy (adults)
-cerebral tension relief
-cranial injuries
-HA
-blindness
-demon needed to escape
-currently called bore holes, used to relieve intracranial pressure |
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| Iris, most popular Egyptian goddess, was afflicted with... |
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| Iris' son, Hor, was afflicted with... |
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| Re, the Egyptian son-god, was inflicted with... |
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Egyptian remedy
burning hair |
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Egyptian remedy
saliva of a "robust" man fasting |
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| antidote against bites of serpents & "mad" dogs |
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Egyptian remedy
eating nails soaked in wine |
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Egyptian remedy
women's milk |
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Egyptian remedy
excrement applied as a paste |
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| cure for anthrax & plague bubos |
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| Therapeutic Papyrus of Thebes |
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1552 B.C.
most important of all Egyptian scrolls
HEENT considerable space
chapter on peds
dermatology
>70 cosmetic procedures |
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married Neferiti
had acromegly - dz of growth hormones
brought on monotheiusm (atonism) |
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god of medicine
his child Aesculapius - had temples where would bring ailments |
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Ancient Greece
evolution postulated by ____ |
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Ancient Greece
anatomical research brought about by ___ |
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Ancient Greece
Hippocrates |
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greatest of all Greek physicians
FATHER OF MEDICINE
Hippocratic Oath
bees swarm grave
wrote Airs, Water, Places
first to have bedside manner
discarded polypharmacy & superstition
treated pts w/ diet, exercise, fresh air
studied drugs extensively
reported his failures as well as successes |
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Ancient Greece
Airs, Water, Places |
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Hippocrates wrote
first public health, medical geographic, climatology, physiotherapy text |
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teacher of Hippocrates
believed gymnastics/wresting for fever
opposite of Hippocrates - had NO bedside manner |
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Ancient Greece
The Epidemics |
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written by Hippocrates
first text of 42 case histories (pt charts)
impotence
daily documented pt progress
no attempt at concealment/death documented as factual, not hidden as failure |
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book written by Hippocrates
about pediatrics |
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Ancient Greece
The Aphorisms |
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book written by Hippocrates
about medical ethics |
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Alexandria
Great Alumni
Erasistratus |
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| discovered urinary catheter |
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Alexandria
Great Alumni
Diocles |
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Alexandria
Great Alumni
Alcmaeon |
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Alexandria
Great Alumni
Praxagoras |
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| distinguished arteries & veins |
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father of anatomy
named duodenum (12 finger breaths long), prostate
described ovaries, ciliary body of eye, vitreous humor, retina, choroid
1st cataract surgery
discovered hyoid bone, meniges |
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Alexandria
Humoral Pathology
definition, created by |
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definition: disease is result of disturbed or abnormal conditions of 4 fluids or humors of body
Hippocrates invented, Herophilus endorsed |
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Alexandria
Humoral Pathology
4 Humors |
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blood
phlegm
black bile
yellow bile |
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Alexandria
Humoral Pathology
4 personality types |
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based on a man's predominating humor, a man's temperament was either:
sanguine
phlegmatic
melancholic
choleric |
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theory that disease was caused by excessive or diseased blood
treated w/ blood-letting and/or leeches
currently treates hemachromatosis
dropsy (old term for ascites) related |
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-first to describe vacuum-like action of lungs
-first to equate heart pumping to blacksmith's bellows
-first to name chordae tendinae
-described (unseen) capillaries that he called synanastomoses and was alone in his belief for 2200 years |
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Rome
goddess that saw breaking of maidenhead |
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Rome
goddess that stopped the monthly flow |
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Rome
goddess of menstration |
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Rome
goddess that hardened bones |
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