It's All Greco Roman to Me
considered the creator of Western medicine
Who is Hippocrates?
people who helped deliver babies; often women (although some men tried to take over)
What is a midwife?
allowed people to see tiny parts of the body/cells
What is a microscope?
originally just meant houses that received pilgrims, travelers, and strangers, but now means places that care for the sick
What is a hospital?
disease that decimated the Native American population
What is smallpox?
highly influential; took Hippocrates ideas and added his own ideas to them in his writings
Who is Galen?
druggists or early pharmacists
What is an apothecary?
Gutenberg invented this, which allowed for info to be spread much more easily
What is the printing press?
places that cared for lepers
What is a lazar house?
massive exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between Europe and the Americas
What is the Columbian Exchange?
true knowledge is found through reasoned thought alone; believed in “forms”
Who is Plato?
famous for an updated model of the solar system with the sun at the center
first known written language
What is cuneiform?
area where the Black Death originated
Where is Central Asia?
group of vulnerable people with no immunity to a disease
What is a virgin population?
true knowledge is found through observation and practical knowledge; believed in “universals”
Who is Aristotle?
categorized parts of the body into groups (taxonomy)
Who is Bichat?
using needles to apply pressure at specific energy points in the body
What is acupuncture?
when Rome split, this empire was the half of Rome that didn’t do so hot
What is the Byzantine Empire?
proposed public health infrastructure improvements; thought that things like drainage, ventilation, and good hygiene could help people become healthier
What is sanitarianism?
master translator who made Greek philosophy compatible with Christian thinking
Who is Augustine?
believer in democratic medicine, published a collection of remedies that could easily be made from home
Who is Culpeper?
basically an early form of vaccination
What is inoculation?
fall of this place eventually lead to the Renaissance
Where is Constantinople?
body Is composed of blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm
What are the four humors?