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Extension units
• 1 Medicine in the Ancient World and the Early Middle Ages
• • Ideas of cause and cure; the recording and transmission of knowledge in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and in the Muslim world.
• • Public health provision in Ancient Rome and in England in the Middle Ages.
• • The role of key individuals: Hippocrates and Galen.
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Ancient medicine
Causes – Egyptians – undigested food rotting in bowels stuck in channels
- All societies – gods+spirits.- Greeks – 4 humours- Romans – beginnings of the bad air/miasma
idea – swamps – army was getting sick near them. 4 humours
- Galen – brain controls body- Islamic medicine challenged ideas of how body
worked. 4 humours
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Communications
• Egyptians – 1st documented society
• Greeks/Romans – big empire
• Hippocratic Collection (200 books)
• Greeks – observation – written records.
• Alexandria – library.
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Cures etc
Egypt – natural remedies – eg honey
Pray to gods eg Imphotep
Hygiene – priests
Greece – observed, recorded. Diagnosis – what the problem is. Prognosis – what’s the likely outcome. Exercise. Asclepius.
- 4 humours – getting rid of the extra
Romans – similar.
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Public health
- Why? Romans needed healthy army
- Clean water
- Medieval times – gets worse. 14th century London – banning throwing rubbish etc.
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Revision sessions
Monday 7th – G316 – 3:30 – paper 1
Thursday 10th – G316 – 3:30 – paper 2
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What sort of question will you get?
• Progress?
• Compare?
• Why?
• Intro – say what your argument is.
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What can we learn from these sources about changing understanding of causes of
disease?Medieval flagellants Louis Pasteur
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Pasteur
Why does he matter?
Germ theory 1861
Germs cause decay – therefore they must cause disease.
Koch – proves germs cause disease – anthrax
Competition to find germs+vaccines
Could be asked to look at –
Why they succeeded/impact of their success