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Humoral Body correct answers Healthy Individual: Humors are in balance
Sickness: imbalance of the humors
Treatment: must be tailored to each individual based on environmental and heritable factors
Anatomized Body correct answers Healthy Individual: All the parts of the body (think machine)
are in working order
Sickness: One or more parts of the body malfunction
Treatment: Identify the site of the malady by associating symptoms with the specific parts of the
body
Asclepius correct answers god of medicine; temples for him often trained early medical figures
(cult of Asclepius)
Hippocrates correct answers probably learned from the priests of the cult of Asclepius; father of
humoralism
The Greek Miracle correct answers The first time in history where the approach to medicine was
rational and causes and symptoms were accounted for in natural terms (natural terms being
relative: the greeks believed the gods were apart of the natural world --> social context)
Hippocratic Corpus correct answers The Sacred Disease; On the Nature of Man;
Airs/Waters/Places
prognostication correct answers physicians must be competent at foretelling what will happen to
the patient (based on dreams during early history)
phusikoi correct answers a group of natural philosophers that still had conceptions of the divine
and the sacred
, asipu correct answers priestly class who employed incantations and exorcisms to bring healing to
the sick
swnw correct answers egyptian healers that were often employed as individual members of the
households of the nobility; they practiced different healing arts such as surgery, ophthalmology,
pharmacy, and dentistry
The Edwin Smith Papyrus correct answers A medical text from Ancient Egypt that contained
information about medical cases and spells for those who suffered a disease
Thales correct answers Attempted to simplify the world by fundamental principles: water was the
basis to life; contributed to philosophy as a discipline
Empedocles correct answers Said the natural world was plural: nature is composed of fire, air,
water, and earth; these elements were composed of two of four possible qualities: hotness,
coldness, dryness, wetness
The four humors correct answers Yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood
Yellow Bile correct answers Choleric: fire, hot and dry
Black Bile correct answers Melancholic: Earth, cold and dry
Phlegm correct answers Flame: Water, wet and cold
Blood correct answers Sanguine: Air, hot and wet
Airs, Waters, Places correct answers Defined health in the places you are based on your
temperament and constitution
Humoral Body correct answers Healthy Individual: Humors are in balance
Sickness: imbalance of the humors
Treatment: must be tailored to each individual based on environmental and heritable factors
Anatomized Body correct answers Healthy Individual: All the parts of the body (think machine)
are in working order
Sickness: One or more parts of the body malfunction
Treatment: Identify the site of the malady by associating symptoms with the specific parts of the
body
Asclepius correct answers god of medicine; temples for him often trained early medical figures
(cult of Asclepius)
Hippocrates correct answers probably learned from the priests of the cult of Asclepius; father of
humoralism
The Greek Miracle correct answers The first time in history where the approach to medicine was
rational and causes and symptoms were accounted for in natural terms (natural terms being
relative: the greeks believed the gods were apart of the natural world --> social context)
Hippocratic Corpus correct answers The Sacred Disease; On the Nature of Man;
Airs/Waters/Places
prognostication correct answers physicians must be competent at foretelling what will happen to
the patient (based on dreams during early history)
phusikoi correct answers a group of natural philosophers that still had conceptions of the divine
and the sacred
, asipu correct answers priestly class who employed incantations and exorcisms to bring healing to
the sick
swnw correct answers egyptian healers that were often employed as individual members of the
households of the nobility; they practiced different healing arts such as surgery, ophthalmology,
pharmacy, and dentistry
The Edwin Smith Papyrus correct answers A medical text from Ancient Egypt that contained
information about medical cases and spells for those who suffered a disease
Thales correct answers Attempted to simplify the world by fundamental principles: water was the
basis to life; contributed to philosophy as a discipline
Empedocles correct answers Said the natural world was plural: nature is composed of fire, air,
water, and earth; these elements were composed of two of four possible qualities: hotness,
coldness, dryness, wetness
The four humors correct answers Yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, and blood
Yellow Bile correct answers Choleric: fire, hot and dry
Black Bile correct answers Melancholic: Earth, cold and dry
Phlegm correct answers Flame: Water, wet and cold
Blood correct answers Sanguine: Air, hot and wet
Airs, Waters, Places correct answers Defined health in the places you are based on your
temperament and constitution
