ancient medicine 2010
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Illness was considered a
punishment by the gods on the sinnerwho had violated a moral
code.
The belief of the
culture :
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Cuneiform Tablets
Medicalpractices
PrescriptionsDrugs
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“ Treatise of
Medical
Diagnosis and
Prognoses”
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Mesopotamian diseases are often blamed
on pre-existing spirits
A number of diseases simply were identified
by names
God , Ghosts , etc...
Bennu
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Malfunction organs Illness
Specific offerings were made to a particular
god or ghost when it was considered to be a
causative factor.
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Mostly taken from :plants ,resins or spices
Spices and resins antibiotic values
Most medicine has antibiotic
properties
E.g. , “ Lion’s fat” (commonly known as tiger lily or “babybreath”)
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Temples - sites for diagnosis of illness
Home - primary centre for health care
Care giver –
family members
River - Healing process outside home
TEMPLEHOMERIVER
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Ashipu (sorcerer)
Determined which god or
demon was causing
the illness .
Asu(a specialist in herbal remedies)
Dealt in what were often classifiable asempirical applications of medication.
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supernatural causes for many diseases
prevention > curepublic health government
ideas adopted from ROMAN Roman conquered Alexandria city
librariesuniversities
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1st doctor to appear in Rome were Greek,captured as prisoners of war.
ALEXANDRIA – centre of learning
Great Library Doctors were allowed to carry out dissections –
DISCOVERIESFour Humours and texts by Hipocrates and his
followers (Hippocratic Writings), who were all Greek.
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ASCLEPIUS
SURGERY
TEMPLE
WATER
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From circa 3300 BC until the Persian invasion of 523
BC.
Often characterized by magical incantations anddubious ingredients and research in
biomedical Egyptology.
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- A roll of 20.23 m long and
30 cm high.
- Includes 877 prescriptions.
- Contains the earliest
documented awareness of tumors.
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Mummification
- Preservation of body.
- Part of ancientEgyptian funerary
practice.
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Death body takento tent
(place of purification)
Viscera (internalorgans) were
removed and dried,ringed, andbandaged.
Placed in canopic jars and Parcels
which place withbody.
Body - dehydrated
for 40 days.
Body cavity restuffed with clean Natron,
regin-soakedbandages and sweetsmelling aromatics.
Bandaging is
carried out for 15days.
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Herbal Remedies...
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Humour black bile yellow bile blood phlegmQuality dry cold hot wet
Temperament melancholic choleric sanguine phlegmatic
Body Part spleen blood liverbrain
(pituitary)Season autumn spring summer winter
Age of Man maturity infancy youth old age
ImbalanceCauses frenzy,
diarrhoea epilepsy, winter colds
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Father of medicine
HIPPOCRATICOATH
Student of Plato
FOUR BASICQUALITIES
Father of sportmedicine
CUPPINGTHERAPY
HIPPOCRATES ARISTOTLE GALEN
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scalpels bone forceps
catheters hooks
MEDICALINSTRUMENT
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Ancient medicine was created by our ancestors
by research through trial and error method.Therefore, for the better healthcare service inour community life, we must do research and
development on how to enhance the efficiency
of modern medicine.