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Early Greek Medicine
CLA 30
40
Classics
Not Applicable
06/08/2009

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Term

 

 

 

Traditional, Pre-Rational Medicine

 

 

 

Definition

 

 

 

Temple Medicine

Term

 

 

 

Apollo Paenius

Definition

 

 

 

god of healing --> Iliad 1

Term

 

 

 

Asclepius

Definition

 

 

 

son of Apollo, sanctuaries at Epidaurus, Athens

Term

 

 

 

Invention of Rational or Scientific Medicine

(natural philosophy)

Definition

 

 

 

Thales, Anaximanderm, Anaximenes

study of the workings of nature

Term

 

 

Alcmaeon

Definition

 

theory of opposite powers

isonomia (equality) = health

monarchia (supremacy) = disease

Term

 

 

Empedocles

Definition

 

 

theory of 4 elements

Term

 

 

Diogenes

Definition

 

 

air is the principle of life

Term

 

 

Aristotle (Lyceum)

Definition

the Lyceum

    Meno: questioning the beg. of nature

biological and zoological study: History of Animals, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals

empiricism

Term

 

 

Diocles

Definition

 

anatomy (dissections)

comparative anatomy

Term

 

 

The Ptolemies

Definition

successors of Alexander the Great

obese

Term

 

 

Herophilus

Definition

descriptive anatomy

terminology

dissection (human cadavers)

the brain and nervous system

eye

Term

 

 

Erasistratus

Definition

mechanical explanations of physiological processes

atoms and void

heart and valves

Term

 

 

Cato the Elder

Definition

de Agri cultura: Farm recipes and rituals

 

Term

 

 

Cult of Asclepius

Definition

incubation

went to get healed

Term

 

 

Asclepiades

Definition

atomism

dietetics

pharmacology

Term

 

 

Celsus

Definition

 

 

On Medical Matters

Term

 

 

Pliny the Elder

Definition

 

 

Natural History

Term

 

 

Urban Problems

Definition

 

Luxury

Water supply

Baths

Term

 

 

Women in Medicine

Definition

 

 

Gynecology

Term

 

 

Drs. in the Army

Definition

 

 

spread medical knowledge

Term

 

 

Diogenes

 

Definition

 

 

blood and breath

Term

 

 

Empedocles and Aristotle

Definition

 

 

blood and thought/Perception/Motion

Term

 

 

Herophilus (2)

Definition

vascular and nervous systems

artery-like vein

vein-like artery

Term

 

 

Erasistratus (2)

Definition

 

heart as pump

arteries, veins, and nerves

capillaries

Term

 

 

Galen

Definition

two trees in the body

Veins: liver

Arteries: lung

Term

 

 

William Harvey

Definition

 

 

du Motu Cordis

Term

 

 

Pre-rational view of Respiration

Definition

breathing brings in soul stuff

 

Term

 

 

Erasistratus (3)

Definition

 

 

arterial respiration

Term

 

 

Galen

Definition

 

 

purpose of respiration was to regulate temp. and to nourish the soul

Term

 

 

Lavoisier

Definition

 

 

discovers oxygen

Term

 

 

Empedocles (2)

Definition

 

 

putrefaction

Term

 

 

Aristotle, Galen, and Later

Definition

innate heat

concoction (pepsis)

hematopoietic function of liver

blood the agent of nutrition

Term

 

 

Empedocles, Democritus, and Hippocratics

Definition

 

pangenesis: heredity

right and left: two chambered uterus

Term

 

Aristotle

Female

Definition

male: seed, form, soul

female: matter

 

comparative anatomy: hystera, metra

Term

 

Herophilus

Female

Definition

described and compared: ovaryies, fallopian tubes, uterus

testes and such

Term

 

 

Euclid

Definition

 

 

ELEMENTS

Term

 

 

Archimedes

Definition

 

 

geometry

Term

 

 

Eratosthenes

Definition

 

 

Calc. of circumference of the Earth

Term

 

 

Apollonius

Definition

 

 

invented terms: ellipse, parabola, hyperbola

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