Ancient Greek Medicine

1. Ancient Greek Medicine By: AbdulAziz Mansour And Homoud Al-Saqabi

2. Table of Contents • Title Page • Table of contents • Introductory • Description of Greek Medicine • Who was Hippocrates • The Hippocratic Oath • Greek Treatments • Tools for Surgery • Conclusion • Work Cited

3. Introductory • Did you know that the first Greek medical school opened in Cnidus 700 B.C. When learning about medicine in ancient Greece it is helpful to know the description of Greek medicine, who Hippocrates was, the Hippocratic oath, Greek treatments and tools for surgery. Today we will talk about how medicine was like in ancient Greece and how it influenced the modern day world.

4. Description of Greek Medicine • Today’s modern day medicine was found in the ancient Greeks medicine. Doctors made scientific observations and experimented on medicine. They went into surgery and used herbs. The Greeks had professionals which included gynecologists that focused on childbirth and illnesses of women.

5. Who Was Hippocrates? • Hippocrates was born in C. 460 B. C. on the Island of Cos, Greece. He was best known as the author of the Hippocratic Oath. He was the world’s most recognized physician in his time. By leaving superstition based on scientific observations, organizing sicknesses, and by making ethical and specialized values for physicians he received the title “Father of Medicine”. He also provided the Earth with the Hippocratic Oath. It is a code of morals made for physicians that is still used by graduates at recent educational medical facilities. Hippocrates died in 377 B.C.

6. Hippocrates

7. The Hippocratic Oath • The Hippocratic Oath is most known out of all the Greek medical texts. The Oath requires a new physician to swear upon all the numerous Gods of healing that they will follow and use the professional ethical standards. The most recognized prohibition is “do no harm”. Little is known about who wrote the Oath or who used it first but it appears to be more strongly influenced by Pythagoras’s followers than Hippocrates’s. It was estimated to have been written in the 4th century. The Oath was rewritten quite often to satisfy the values of various Greek cultures that were influenced by medicine. Based on popular belief, the Hippocratic Oath was not obligatory in modern medical schools.

8. The Original Hippocratic Oath • Rewritten Versions of the Oath

9. Greek Treatments • This rational system was based on humors. Doctors believed that people had four substances in there body: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. If you were healthy, all of your substances were equal. If you were sick, your substances were unequal. For example, people with too much blood had fevers. Doctors had to reduce there blood to meet the level of the other substances. They did this by cutting the patients arm and let the blood run out. Another method was by placing a leech on the patients arm. Leeches are organisms that suck the blood out of another living thing to survive. Doctors used this method so frequently, they were referred to as “leeches”.

10. The Four Humors • Different Types of Leeches

11. Tools for Surgery • Hippocrates did procedures using tools in 400 B.C. He used was a scalpel, which cuts into a sick persons body, they were made of steel. Ancient Greek doctors used gloomy and sharp tools during surgical treatments. They used the gloomy hook to poke and pick up little parts softly such as blood vessels.

12. Conclusion • Hippocrates was the author of the Hippocratic Oath and is a famous physician. After all, most medicines and scientific observations we have today are from the Greeks.

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