Classics Ancient Medicine Ques ons and answers |
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How do you count BCE?
count down, i.e 5th century is 499-400
How do you count CE
count up, i.e 5th century 400-499
Types of wri en texts
trea!ses, le ers, inscrip!ons, poetry, papyri
Types of art
vase pain!ngs, statues, reliefs
Physical evidence
artefacts, tools, archaeological sites, human remains
How were sources transmi ed and the result
monasteries chose what to transcribe
la!n texts prior to 350 AD were lost
book roll to codex (modern book form)
greek handwri!ng changed (become smaller with abbrevia!ons that couldn't be remembered)
caused generaliza!on
writers assumed the readers had a level of understanding therefore omi ed the obvious
Problems with the sources of transmission
isola!onist, since hippo was the "founder" other methods were forgo en
religion of the region affected medicine
Causa!on
seek a single en!ty that causes disease
Reduc!on
separate pathogens from pa!ent (disease is the problem not the pa!ent)
meant that outside contribu!ng factors were dismissed
, Health
the absence of disease
relied on cultural norms
both personal and communal
balance between people, nature and supernatural
Disease
devia!on from the norm
culturally defined
Healers
many types
medical pluralism
consulta!on depends on economic, loca!on, percep!on of disease and other facotrs)
Evidence of disease (textual and archeological)
texts describe illnesses like cough, physical deformi!es, bad teeth, reproduc!ve health, combat
injuries etc
bad teeth and anaemia from malnutri!on, physical deformi!es, combat wounds can be traced
archeologically
Where was mesopotamian
modern day iraq
Mesopotamian hierarchy
gods >spirits> people
must consider those rela!onships when dealing with health
symptoms are merely encoded messages between the pa!ent and these communi!es
Maruk
mesopotamian deity
patron of babyon
son of enki
head of divine council
healer of gods
Gula
Updated RATED A+ | NEW
How do you count BCE?
count down, i.e 5th century is 499-400
How do you count CE
count up, i.e 5th century 400-499
Types of wri en texts
trea!ses, le ers, inscrip!ons, poetry, papyri
Types of art
vase pain!ngs, statues, reliefs
Physical evidence
artefacts, tools, archaeological sites, human remains
How were sources transmi ed and the result
monasteries chose what to transcribe
la!n texts prior to 350 AD were lost
book roll to codex (modern book form)
greek handwri!ng changed (become smaller with abbrevia!ons that couldn't be remembered)
caused generaliza!on
writers assumed the readers had a level of understanding therefore omi ed the obvious
Problems with the sources of transmission
isola!onist, since hippo was the "founder" other methods were forgo en
religion of the region affected medicine
Causa!on
seek a single en!ty that causes disease
Reduc!on
separate pathogens from pa!ent (disease is the problem not the pa!ent)
meant that outside contribu!ng factors were dismissed
, Health
the absence of disease
relied on cultural norms
both personal and communal
balance between people, nature and supernatural
Disease
devia!on from the norm
culturally defined
Healers
many types
medical pluralism
consulta!on depends on economic, loca!on, percep!on of disease and other facotrs)
Evidence of disease (textual and archeological)
texts describe illnesses like cough, physical deformi!es, bad teeth, reproduc!ve health, combat
injuries etc
bad teeth and anaemia from malnutri!on, physical deformi!es, combat wounds can be traced
archeologically
Where was mesopotamian
modern day iraq
Mesopotamian hierarchy
gods >spirits> people
must consider those rela!onships when dealing with health
symptoms are merely encoded messages between the pa!ent and these communi!es
Maruk
mesopotamian deity
patron of babyon
son of enki
head of divine council
healer of gods
Gula
