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On the Sacred Disease is a work of the Hippocratic Corpus, written about 400 B.C.Its authorship cannot be confirmed, so is regarded as dubious. The treatise is thought to contain one of the first recorded observations of epilepsy in humans.
Hippocrates (470–c. 360 BC) classified mental disorders, including paranoia, epilepsy, mania and melancholia. [23] Hippocrates mentions the practice of bloodletting in the fifth century BC. [24] [25] Through long contact with Greek culture, and their eventual conquest of Greece, the Romans absorbed many Greek (and other) ideas on medicine. [26]
In Ancient Greece, being a man of high morals went hand in hand with being a morally just physician. [3] A famous maxim (Epidemics I.11) advises: "As to diseases, make a habit of two things—to help, or at least to do no harm." [44] The most famous work in the Hippocratic Corpus is the Hippocratic Oath, a landmark declaration of medical ethics.
The history of medical diagnosis began in earnest from the days of Imhotep in ancient Egypt and Hippocrates in ancient Greece but is far from perfect despite the enormous bounty of information made available by medical research including the sequencing of the human genome. The practice of diagnosis continues to be dominated by theories set down ...
The treatise On Ancient Medicine (Greek: Περὶ Ἀρχαίας Ἰατρικῆς; Latin: De vetere medicina) is perhaps the most intriguing and compelling work of the Hippocratic Corpus. The Corpus itself is a collection of about sixty writings covering all areas of medical thought and practice.
Treatment of mental illness in ancient Greece was a new and experimental process due to the lack of modern-day tools and technology that allow doctors to identify these mental ailments. Some ancient physicians didn't understand what part of the body was responsible for the strange behavior and turned to prayer and forgiveness from the gods.
Asclepius (/ æ s ˈ k l iː p i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀσκληπιός Asklēpiós [asklɛːpiós]; Latin: Aesculapius) is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology. He is the son of Apollo and Coronis, or Arsinoe, or of Apollo alone.
Bust of Asclepiades. Asclepiades (Greek: Ἀσκληπιάδης; c. 129/124 BC – 40 BC [1] [2]), sometimes called Asclepiades of Bithynia or Asclepiades of Prusa, was a Greek physician born at Prusias-on-Sea [3] in Bithynia in Anatolia and who flourished at Rome, where he practised and taught Greek medicine.