Definitions
A group of writings
What is Corpus?
The amount (approx.) of treaties Hippocrates wrote
What is sixty?
Where Galen was born
What is Pergamum?
The Hippocratic treaties laid the foundation of this medicine
What is Western?
Galen's studies before medicine
What is philosophy and mathematics?
Short books on specific topics
What is treaties?
Where Hippocrates was born
What is the island of Cos?
Galen's medical hero
What is Hippocrates?
Before Hippocrates, disease was assumed to have this dimension
What is supernatural?
The author of a famous series of Meditations
What is emperor Marcus Aurelius?
An old expression that someone is in a good or bad mood
What is humours?
The year Hippocrates was born
What is 460 BC?
The practice Galen came up with that doctors still use
What is feeling a patient's pulse?
When the body has fits, becomes unconscious and experiences muscle-twisting
What is epilepsy?
Galen's influential treaty that looked structures of the organs and what role they played in the working of the whole human body
What is On the Uses of the Parts?
A medical condition when the skin turns yellow
What is jaundice?
The principle known as ''both health and diseases are caused by humours in our bodies''
What is the second Hippocratic principle?
An important subject to Galen
What is anatomy?
The meaning of ''vis medicatrix naturae''
What is the healing power of nature?
The large vein into the heart where blood was further refined with another spirit
What is vena cava?
Short summaries written down regarding one's experience
What is aphorisms?
The author of On the Nature of Man
What is Hippocrates' son-in-law?
The label given to Galen in which he would have been proud of
What is ''the divine Galen?''
The four humours
What is blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm?
The person who discovered blood circulates
What is William Harvey?