PHAR1101 Exam with Verified Solutions
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Terms in this set (301)
- Almost nothing
Prehistoric medicine and - Diverse cultures developed own healing methods,
pharmacology including drug therapy
- Based on belief and practices
- Cave paintings
Where's the evidence - Physical human remains
- Fragmentary items which may be tools
The sorcerer which is first painting relating to health
Cave paintings
and medicine. Interpretations: shaman figure
Bog bodies Preserve bodies e.g. icemen and glacier mummies
Tollund Man (Denmark) Infested with parasites
Oldest evidence of Lyme disease in his DNA and
Otzi
parasite
- no conclusive physical evidence
Evidence for prehistoric
- plant remains in prehistoric teeth and stomachs
medicinal drug use
rather than drugs
If we want to carry out reliable comparisons with
Recorded history
modern scientific medicine. It is very fragmented
Did ancient medicine use No
the scientific method?
, Organised efforts to come up with explanations of
Scientific method nature. Always modifying and correcting these
through systematic observations
Ancient communities often had sophisticated
Method versus random
technology and equipment at their disposal and they
stuff
practiced observation
- Allows discovery to proceed in an organised way
- Eliminates a lot of repetition
Strengths of the scientific - Encourages us to change or revise explanations - in
method the face of evidence
- Provides clear audit trial
- Results should be communicable and replicable
- Did systematise the description of disease duration
- Did systematise some elements of basic clinical
observation
Hippocratic approach do?
- Did not use scientific method
- May have held back development of scientific
method
Prominent in the Hippocratic Corpus. The human
body was thought to contain four principal humours
matching the four elements of (earth, air, fire and
Humoral Theory water). Illnesses were caused by imbalance and
excess in the four bodily humours. Humoral theory as
the single most enduring idea in Western medicine
from the Ancient Greek onwards.
- Dominated Western Medicine for centuries
- It as almost unbridgeable as a way of thinking about
the human body, health and illness
Humoral theory's legacy
- Observations were misplaces
- It was not tested using scientific method
- Doctors supported and promoted this theory
When did medicine Middle Ages 1200 CE
become scientific?
Save
Terms in this set (301)
- Almost nothing
Prehistoric medicine and - Diverse cultures developed own healing methods,
pharmacology including drug therapy
- Based on belief and practices
- Cave paintings
Where's the evidence - Physical human remains
- Fragmentary items which may be tools
The sorcerer which is first painting relating to health
Cave paintings
and medicine. Interpretations: shaman figure
Bog bodies Preserve bodies e.g. icemen and glacier mummies
Tollund Man (Denmark) Infested with parasites
Oldest evidence of Lyme disease in his DNA and
Otzi
parasite
- no conclusive physical evidence
Evidence for prehistoric
- plant remains in prehistoric teeth and stomachs
medicinal drug use
rather than drugs
If we want to carry out reliable comparisons with
Recorded history
modern scientific medicine. It is very fragmented
Did ancient medicine use No
the scientific method?
, Organised efforts to come up with explanations of
Scientific method nature. Always modifying and correcting these
through systematic observations
Ancient communities often had sophisticated
Method versus random
technology and equipment at their disposal and they
stuff
practiced observation
- Allows discovery to proceed in an organised way
- Eliminates a lot of repetition
Strengths of the scientific - Encourages us to change or revise explanations - in
method the face of evidence
- Provides clear audit trial
- Results should be communicable and replicable
- Did systematise the description of disease duration
- Did systematise some elements of basic clinical
observation
Hippocratic approach do?
- Did not use scientific method
- May have held back development of scientific
method
Prominent in the Hippocratic Corpus. The human
body was thought to contain four principal humours
matching the four elements of (earth, air, fire and
Humoral Theory water). Illnesses were caused by imbalance and
excess in the four bodily humours. Humoral theory as
the single most enduring idea in Western medicine
from the Ancient Greek onwards.
- Dominated Western Medicine for centuries
- It as almost unbridgeable as a way of thinking about
the human body, health and illness
Humoral theory's legacy
- Observations were misplaces
- It was not tested using scientific method
- Doctors supported and promoted this theory
When did medicine Middle Ages 1200 CE
become scientific?
