History of Medicine 1
History of Medicine 1
History of Medicine 1
BAP
2024
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• Early medical traditions include those of Babylon, Egypt, China and India.
• Bloodletting
• Monthly purging
• Making prosthetic devices
• Embalming
• Founded Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese was founded in 1887
• Great 2nd century physician and anatomist, spent his early medical career as
a surgeon to the gladiators
• Employed as many as 20 scribes to write down all that he said in the work.
• He dissected countless animals in his prolific medical research, but no bodies
• Described wounds as “Windows to the Body”
• Also studied philosophy and wrote that a motive of profit was incompatible
with a serious devotion to medicine, stating that doctors must learn to despise
money.
• A proponent of the miasma theory of infection, which essentially blamed
infection on clouds of poisonous gases
• Galen made the first attempts to master anatomy. He studied the anatomy of
animals and applied it to humans
• Medical schools used Galen’s books as textbooks for more than a thousand
years. He became the undisputed authority, despite the apparent fallacies
• From the 4 elements: earth, air, fire and water derived the idea of the 4
humours(or fluids) of black bile, yellow bile, blood and phlegm with their
associated melancholic, choleric, sanguine and phlegmatic temperaments
• It was believed that the balance of these humours in the body determined
physical states of health
• Galen believed that disease resulted from an imbalance of the vital fluids, or
humors, of the body
• This idea was developed by Hippocrates
• “The body has in itself blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile…We enjoy
the most perfect health when these elements are in the right proportion”
• 1500s
• The comparatively well patients (on the right)
were separated from the very ill (on the left)
• Note there were always two patients to a bed
• Versalius was just 28 when he published “The Fabric of the Human Body” in
1543
• Contained 663 pages and 300 beautiful illustrations.
• He spent his personal fortune in its publication
• Marked a turning point in the history of medicine.
• Healers might ask why the patient is ill, diviners with special powers might be
asked to find the source of disease
• Treatments depend on the source of the problem
• Massage and herbalist remedies are common
• Communal song and dance are also prescribed frequently as remedies
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