The History of Medicine Part 4: Roman Medicine

  "Fight, Fight, Fight!" They all scream. Wars here, wars there, wars everywhere! Where there were wars, you know there were injuries. Do you know what time period we are in? If you said the Romans, then bingo! The ROMAN PERIOD was where surgery advanced faster than any other time period! They basically had to based on how much fighting they were doing. They learned the most essential ways of healing people in result and also learning more about the human anatomy. In 169 AD, an infamous Greek doctor named Galen discovered that the human body is much like an apes. Since dissecting humans was illegal in Roman-owned land at the time, Galen would go out into the jungle and find apes to dissect. With this data, this indirectly started the thought of evolution.
  Despite the fact this was one of the bloodiest times in medical history, it was actually one of the cleanest. The Romans demanded that there were no sewages or dirty water to keep the citizens clean and healthy. Romans knew by this time that dirt causes illness, so they bathed frequently.
    So there we have it folks. Romans gave us more knowledge about surgery tactics, that we are hairless apes, and we should stay clean to stay healthy. How ironic for a such a bloody time.

Sites that need to be cited;
Medicalnewstoday.com
Localhistories.org

History of Medicine Part 3: Ancient Greece

   Athena was the goddess of war and wisdom. Zeus was the god of all gods. Hippocrates was the god of medicine? Yes, now we are in the ANCIENT GREECE period where almost everyone was wealthy, and studies of science (and math) were popular hobbies. Men like Pythagoras (Believed number were very important in life) and Aristotle ( Made up the theory about the four humours) were examples of this. A scientist named Alcmaeon, started to wonder whether diseases could be caused by other issues besides religion like environmental issues and how a person lives. He came up with the theory that the body is always healthy as long as the elements of hot, cold, wet, and dry were balanced. This led him to be a founder of a medical school in Cnidus around 700 BC.
  Remember that the man I stated in the beginning? Hippocrates? During this time period, this brilliant scientist became known as the "father of medicine". He created a book , with a group of colleagues, called the Hippocratic Corpus, which gave around 60 Greek medical solutions for doctors to learn. This book became one of many books that will be cherished among the medical schools and teachings for thousands of years.
  Now let's talk about the four humours. Aristotle gave us a theory that contradicted the Egyptians' Channel theory and became the new aspect about the body. This theory explains that there was four humours in body and if they were balanced, then you were healthy. It was somewhat like Alcmaeon's theory, but Aristotle gave the names of what should be balanced. Those four elements were Yellow Bile, Black Bile, Blood, and Phlegm. This theory was so popular that it lasted over a thousand years!   Surgery did advance slightly during this period. Tools like the syringe and catheter were created and people enriched their knowledge about the human anatomy by doing so.
  In all, the Greeks made so much success in the medical field from learning more about the causes of diseases to the Four Humour theory. They did this in such short time and probably could of did more if it wasn't for the Romans taking over...

Sites that need to be cited:
Medicalnewstoday.com
Localhistories.org
Explorable.org