Medicine

By: Charne Visser & Valentina Shamma

Hippocrates was a Greek physician born in 460 B.C He became known as the founder of medicine and was regarded as the greatest physician of his timeHis medical practice was based on observations and on the study of the human bodyHe accurately described disease symptoms and was the first physician to accurately describe the symptoms of pneumoniaOne of his beliefs was the natural healing process rest

Hippocrates was also the first physician that held the belief that thoughts, ideas, and feelings come from the brain and not the heart as others of him time believed.

Hippocrates traveled throughout Greece practicing his medicine until he found a medical school in the city he was born in which is Cos , Greece

He began teaching until He soon developed an Oath of Medical Ethics for physicians to follow

Today most physicians that want to become doctors must take the Hippocratic oath as it is in their medical practice

He died in 377 BC and today he is known as the “Father Of Medicine”

Medicine was very important in Ancient GreeceHippocrates was a Greek philosopherThe Greeks believed that the body was made up of

four main components or four humorsHippocrates argued that if someone has a fever, that’s

a sign that the humans has to much blood in their body

Hippocrates began teaching that every disease had only natural causes

In medicine, doctors still refer to the Hippocratic oath by Hippocrates

Hippocrates writings became the foundation of medicine in Europe and the Middle Easy for centuries

Hippocrates was the first physician known who actually considered medicine to be science

The earliest Greeks thought that illness was punishments sent from the gods.

They did not know about the natural causes of diseases and healing until Hippocrates bought that scientific way of thinking

Today people who become doctors take the Hippocratic oath , they promise to be honest, preserve life and to keep all information between them and patients private.

It is said that the Caduceus is the “magic wand” that Hermes (messenger of the gods) carried around but in the Bible it states that the Israelites complained about the fact that they were living through harsh conditions in a desert in Egypt so the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the people, and many Israelites were bitten and died. They told Moses that they had sinned against him and the Lord and that Moses must please pray to God to take away the poisonous snakes. The Lord then told Moses to make a bronze snake and put it on a pole, so that anyone who was bitten could look at it and be healed. This is stated in Numbers 21:4-9

Clinical observation is the process of learning about a person's mental health by watching him/her during their day-to-day routines at home, school, and in their surroundings.

Hippocrates invented the Hippocratic oath and the clinical observation. He bought a new way of thinking into the lives of many people. For example : many ancient Greeks thought that illness was punishments sent from the gods. Patients believed that the gods cured them during the night, while the truth was that the doctors drugged the patient into sleeping to cure them.

The world would be a disaster. We wouldn’t be able to have a proper modern society without the Greek contribution of medicine to our world.

Many more people than there are now will be dying all over the world because there wont be doctors who have the knowledge of medicine or healing to be able to cure the peoples illnesses.