history of medicine key figures
HIPPOCRATES: -nationality
-years of life
-key beliefs and practices 4
-influence today
1. Greek
460-370BC
2a. First physician to regard the body as a whole rather than individual parts
b. four humours
c.importance of observation
d.diet and recovery
3. popularly regarded as father of modern medicine
hippocratic oath
GALEN nationality
years of life
what he did
area he effected profoundly
roman-modern day turkey
took hippocrates' ideas further
3 yrs at a gladiator school where he grew his knowledge
emphasised listening to a patient's pulse
god is key to human development
western medicine for 1500yrs
MEDIVAL SURGEON JOHN OF ARDERNE- nationality
-successs rate
-well known operations
-book
-english
-50%
anal abscess common in knights
surgical manual pratica (1376)
HELPED DEVELOP SURGERY ESPECIALLY ON DEEP WOUNDS