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Each card contain a description of each individual and their contribution to medicine for the AQA GCSE History course. They include their long and short term impacts which is very useful information to include in your essays.

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Medicine through time

,GREEKS DISEASE &
Hippocrates INFECTION
Hippocrates was a Greek philosopher 460BC
to 377BC known as the ‘father of medicine’
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SHORT TERM




Theory of the four humours based on the ideas of greek philosophers like Thales,
Anaximander, Pythagoras and Aristotle
Everything made from 4 elements – earth, air, water and fire.
Applied to the human body – blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.
An imbalance caused illness
Using clinical observation the doctor tried to bring the four humours back into balance
eg bleeding or purging.



The Hippocratic Oath – doctors promised to give their best treatment not to harm
LONG TERM




the patient and keep everything confidential.
Created the Hippocratic collection (books which passed on his ideas to later
generations)
Clinical observations – doctor had to study his patients carefully ‘Observation,
Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment’
Hippocrates rejected the ideas of gods or magic



Religion – people still believed in
the Gods
Communication
LIMITATIONS




FACTORS




Nobody questions the ideas for
2000 years

, MEDIEVAL DISEASE &
Ibn Sina INFECTION
‘Galen of Islam’

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SHORT TERM




Compiled a summary of all medical knowledge called ‘The Canon
of Medicine’, chapters on eating disorders and obesity,
LONG TERM




The Canon was used as a standard text in European schools
and Universities

Crusades and Christian beliefs
meant some people would not
Communication
trust the new discoveries or
LIMITATIONS




FACTORS




views. Religion

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