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| What did the Greeks do to stay clean? |
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| Cleanliness included rubbing their whole body with oil and washing the face and eyes with pure water. |
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| What was the Hippocratic Oath? |
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| A promise made by doctors to obey rules of behaviour in their professional lives. The Oath is still used today and makes clear that doctors are not magicians and they have to keep high standards of treatment and work with the benefit of patients rather than to make themselves rich. |
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| Describe the Hippocratic Corpus. |
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| It is a collection of medical books some of which may have been written by Hippocrates or his followers. This collection is important as it is the first detailed list of sypmtoms and treatments. |
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An idea of Hippocrates to observe and record illness through:
DIAGNOSIS
PROGNOSIS
OBSERVATION
TREATMENT |
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| The theory is a natural method of explaining and treating illness and that disease was caused by one of four things: Black / Yellow Bile, Phlegm or Blood and is affected by the seasons. |
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| A famous Greek doctor born in around 460BC and wrote a number of medical books advising doctors how to treat their patients. |
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| Why would Alexandria be a good place to study? |
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| It has a library with knowledge from all over the world and dissection was allowed in Alexandria but forbidden in the rest of the world. |
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| Which factor did most to help the development of Greek medicine? |
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Personal opinion: Give reasons why. 1. Hippocrates
2. Cleanliness
3. More natural ideas
4. Alexandria
-eg. I think that the Greeks did help the progress of medicine as there were numerous Greek philosophers / doctors who were famous foe having theories about everything and made contributions to medical advances such as Hippocrates who helped communication of treatments / symptoms to be passed down to be developed for better medical care. This meant that parts of the body were identified, understood. For example the Brain controlling the body. Therefore new treatments developed such as Bleeding, Diet and Excercise (pride in their bodies - a run before breakfast) and Personal Hygiene. This all helped to prevent illness and to move away from supernatural beliefs. |
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