General History
This emerged around 700 B.C.E. and continued until around 600 C.E.
What is the Greek civilization?
He put forth the idea that all natural matter consisted of four elements.
Who is Empedocles?
This pain could be minor for a short period of time or more severe for a long period of time, while the other is ongoing and usually lasts longer than 6 months.
What is acute and chronic pain?
These ideas gave way to a search for natural causes.
What is magic and incantations?
This work is thought to be the actual work of several different writers.
What is the Corpus Hippocraticum?
His followers believed that numbers had precise meanings, especially the numbers 4 and 7.
Who is Pythagoras?
This affected the gallbladder during the warm and dry season and was represented by the element of fire.
What is blood?
This means "life".
What is bio?
A bath to relieve the pain and to help bring up phlegm.
What is the treatment for pneumonia?
They were the first systematic biomedical writers in the Western tradition.
Who are the Hippocratic writers?
This quarantine period to avoid disease contagion is sacred.
What is the number 40?
This is phlegmatic and affected the lungs during the cold and wet season and is represented as water.
What is yellow bile?
This is of a disease or a condition found in a certain geographic region or in a specific race of people.
What is endemic?
This treatment required dipping a large soft sponge in water and applying gently or drawing off blood from the elbow until it appeared bright red.
What is a pain in the side?
This is the moral code for the profession of medicine and the outlines of a system of accreditation for new physicians via an apprenticeship.
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
This raised the need for people to keep healthy in order to promote fitness and prevent injury.
What are the Olympics?
This made one feel melancholy during the cold season, affecting the spleen with the element of dry earth.
What is black bile?
This is relating to birth or descent.
What is genea?
The Greeks also recommended this as therapies for mental and physical illness.
What is music and theater?
This gives the suggestion that prognosis consists in knowing the patient's condition in the past, present, and the future.
What is On Prognosis?
The teaching at his school revolutionized medicine and established it as a profession and discipline in its own right.
Who is Hippocrates?
The sanguine complexion during the warm and wet season lent a certain "air" to the head.
What is phlegm?
This is a sudden recurrence or attack of a disease; a sudden worsening of symptoms.
What is paroxysm?
These daughters of Asklepios would arrive with two holy snakes that would cure the people they were treating.
Who are Hygeia and Panacea?
These were influential in the development of later biomedical practitioners.
What are the Hippocratic writings?