Science+and+Medicine

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Hippocrates~
Hippocrates was born in 460 BC on the island of Cos in Greece. Hippocrates was the father of modern medicine. His family of physicians traced their roots back to the god of medicine, Asklepios. Hippocrates was a doctor that studied sicknesses and tried to find cures, but is a well known role-model for how a doctor should act. He believed that a disease had a physical and rational explanation, and later created a school where he taught students to diagnose illness through observation, instead of theory. This school was located on the island of Cos. He was also a medical writer who was the first to believe that thoughts came from the brain, and not the heart. Eventually, after a long fufilled life, Hippocrates the physician died in 377BC at the age of 83.



=Medicine~= Medicine~ Secular (scientific) & sacred healing/medicinal practices co-existed peacefully. Personal physicians had to swear an oath. This method is still used today. Not all people turned to doctors for help. They went to the gods too.

Physicians~
Physicians prescribed wide variety wide variety of drugs, some effective, others harmful: -Vinegar& wine were used as disinfectants on wounds -Hellebore (a poisonous plant) was prescribed to induce vomiting and diarrhea -Mustard juice, honey & water mixed together was good for inflamed/infected tonsils -They used other powerful herbs Physicians also prescribed animal products: -Viper skin was used in theriac (poison antidote) -Snake meat pickled in oil, wine, salt & dill was used to improve eyesight nerves -Leeches were used to suck infection Physicians even prescribed minerals: -Powdered alum, sodium carbonate,copper & lead oxides, & lead sulfate dried and disinfected ulcers and wounds Healers thought gods made people ill either as punishment for wickedness, or pride, or because they hadn't been honoring the Gods enough Greek doctors used medical tools such as: -razor sharp knives -strong saws for cutting the thickest bones -hot irons for sealing wounds -bowls for collecting blood -hot irons to seal wounds.

If things got really bad,sometimes they even performed amputation. After doctors performed surgery, herbs were applied. Some people were even told to just eat better, or exercise more.

Healers~
Healers gave charms to patients for good luck.Healers also sent patients to shrine of Asklepios, the god who watched over the sick and in pain. Many healers believed that Gods made people ill.

Medicine Myths: 1)If a woman died during childbirth, she was believed to have angered Artemis (goddess of birth) Notes: A man noticed that the lower he went to the water the higher it went.Then that same man found out that objects loose weight Samo was the first astronomer who belived that the world did not move and it was the center of the universe. Samo studied the sky and came to think that the world moved around the sun. He also thought that night and day was caused by the earth rotating on an axis.

Some people used the human body as tools, then they discribed how the brain and other organs worked. Other people corrected Not all Greeks scientists studied numbers in science. Some Greeks scientists studied others areas of science, such as medicine and engineering.