CS 2902: Ancient Medicine (Test 1) Answered 100% correctly| Latest 2026

CS 2902: Ancient Medicine (Test 1) Answered 100% correctly| Latest 2026 Timeline - 4th century BCE (399-300 BCE/BC) to 2nd century CE (100-199 CE/AD) Problems with the sources when studying ancient medicine - only a fraction of sources exists from ancient day (need to look be critical and may need to consider other timelines) - complication with Greek society (only elite member were literate) - experiential medicine and oral tradition (many medical theories/procedures were observed first hand, never written down, and was passed down orally) - throughout time, sources like texts simply destroyed - biases of scribes: copying/recording: things published based on interest - general public may not be interested in them Types of sources Written texts, Art, Physical evidence Examples of written texts - letters, poetry, inscriptions, papyri, treaties Examples of Art - vase, paintings, statues, relics, etc. Examples of Physical Evidence - human remains, artifacts, tools, archeological sites/buildings What affects Transmission of sources - Natural disasters, warfare (destroys sources) - Monasteries picking what is transcribed (some works lost or forgotten) - Latin medical texts before 350 AD lost - Books translated to codex (codex more accessible/easy access, books may contain contents that is difficult to format in codex, so they are simply left out and eventually forgotten) - In 850 AD/CE: changes in handwriting made in difficult for people to make sense of what is written (more abbreviation in language/writing) How were some medical works saved?