Byzantine Medicine - Ancient Greek Medicine (Paperback)

Chapters: Ancient Greek Medicine. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The first known Greek medical school opened in Cnidus in 700 BC. Alcmaeon, author of the first anatomical work, worked at this school, and it was here that the practice of observing patients was established. Ancient Greek medicine centered around the theory of humours. The most important figure in ancient Greek medicine is the physician Hippocrates, known as the "Father of Medicine," who established his own medical school at Cos. Hippocrates and his students documented many conditions in the Hippocratic Corpus, and developed the Hippocratic Oath for physicians, still in use today. The Greek Galen was one of the greatest surgeons of the ancient world and performed many audacious operationsincluding brain and eye surgeries that were not tried again for almost two millennia. The writings of Hippocrates, Galen, and others had a lasting influence on Medieval European medicine and Islamic medicine, until many of their finding eventually became obsolete from the 14th century onwards. Despite their known respect for Egyptian medicine, attempts to discern any particular influence on Greek practice at this early time have not been dramatically successful because of the lack of sources and the challenge of understanding ancient medical terminology. It is clear, however, that the Greeks imported Egyptian substances into their pharmacopoeia, and the influence becomes more pronounced after the establishment of a school of Greek medicine in Alexandria. The physician Hippocrates, known as the Father of Modern Medicine.A towering figure in the history of medicine was the physician Hippocrates of Kos (ca. 460 BC ca. 370 BC), considered the "father of modern medicine." The Hippocratic Corpus is a ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=483114