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Early Greeks' Beliefs/Actions
My Beliefs/Actions
Future Benefits based on my teachings
My Teachings
My Backround/Life about Hippocrates
100
What did Greeks think caused disease before my study?
That gods/goddesses controlled health/ sickness.
100
What did I believe caused illness and disease?
Natural Effects
100
What is one type of cure that are still used today?
Herbal cures
100
What did I tell other doctors before treating patients?
To wash their hands/to make sure their hands were clean.
100
Where and when was I born?
island of Kos(Cos) in 460 B.C.E.
200
Who did the Ancient Greeks think that helped gods cure human?
Priests
200
What were two natural effects that affected human health?
Attitude/weather
200
What does the book, "Hippocratic Oath" a book by Hippocrates talk about?
How doctors should treat a patient
200
(Fill in the blank.) I told patients that walking for exercise was _______. (good/bad)
good
200
Name 3 professional jobs I did in my adult life.
Possible answers: Scientist, doctor, philosopher, physicist
300
Who was the god of medicine people thought could heal them?
Aesculapius
300
Name at least 2 illness that I described or found out.
(Possible answers): Pneumonia, tetanus, tuberculosis, arthritis, mumps, malaria
300
What is the title of the speech or poem that present day students who will become doctors recite, promising not to harm patients?
"Hippocratic Oath"
300
What did I tell patients about the amount of food they should eat?
Patients should eat moderate amount of food; not too much or not too little
300
What was I called and why?
"Father of Medicine" because many of the things he discovered are still used today.
400
What method did priests use to try and heal patients?
Magic words
400
What did 2 things I looked to find what illness a sick patient had?
Color of skin/How eyes look
400
Based on the research I found that attitude affected your health, how do we have to think and act in a way?
Think and act positively
400
What did I tell patients that they should feel and should act so they would heal faster?
Feel happy and act positively
400
What is the reason why I was in prison for two decades?
Greek politics and governance opposed Hippocrates' theories and approaches
500
What were the 4 elements Ancient Greeks believed that matched the 4 fluids in the body?
Earth, air, fire, water
500
What was one type form of medicine Greek doctors and I made into?
(possible answers): teas, ointments, tinctures
500
What type of method did I use to find out what causes disease opposed to looking to the answers for answers, which people still use?
Observation and reasoning (Looking and Thinking)
500
Fill in the blank: I taught students that the human body could _______ itself and return to good health.
heal
500
When I was in prison for 2 decades, what is the title of the book I wrote?
"THe Complicated Body"