GreekMedicine

An Overview

Historical Perspective A History of Medicine: http://

www.historylearningsite.co.uk/history_of_medicine.htm

Ancient Medicine from Homer to Vesalius: http://www.hsl.virginia.edu/historical/artifacts/antiqua/

Ancient Greek Medicine Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_medicine

Medical News Today: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/info/medicine/ancient-greek-medicine.php#.UMzTbW-RRVI

U.S. National Library of Medicine: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/greek/greek_words.html

Key FiguresHippocrates and Galen

Hippocrates(460 BCE –370 BCE)

(Cast in the Puskin Museum, Moscow)Shakko / CC-BY-SA-3.0

About Hippocrates Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocrates Video about Hippocrates:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2LnqnJY9OQ&feature=relmfu

The Island of Kos (yellow)© Bgabel at old wikivoyage / CC-BY-SA-3.0

Hippocrates (left) with Asklepios (right) at Kos (Mosaic in Kos Museum)Tedmek / CC-BY-SA-3.0

Hippocrates Practicing Medicine

Tedmek / CC-BY-SA-3.0

Hippocrates on a Coin from Kos (Representation)

Ernst Wallis et al / Public Domain

Hippocrates: Later Representations

14th Century Byzantine Fresco

Public Domain

17th Century Engraving (Rubens)

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Illustrated Aphorisms of Hippocrates (14th Century)

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Galen (129 CE-200/216 cE)

(17th century engraving of Galen at the Anatomical Theater, Bologna)

Luca Borghi / Public Domain

About Galen Wikipedia: http://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen Video about Galen and Hippocrates:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPAfGLyRmvc&feature=related

Galen and Hippocrates(Anagni, Italy)

© Nina Aldin Thune / CC-BY-SA-2.5

Hippocratic Medicine

Oaths Hippocratic Oath:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

Oath and Prayer of Maimonides: http://guides.library.jhu.edu/content.php?pid=23699&sid=190571

Hippocratic Oath: Greek and Latin Diglot (left) Cross-Shaped Manuscript (right)

Public Domain Public Domain

The Humors Humoralism:

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/people/~/~/link.aspx?_id=A8494A5D0B3649DF919495CF9087E544&_z=z

The Four Humors: http://www.greekmedicine.net/b_p/Four_Humors.html

The Four Humors

Hippocratic Device Used for Resetting Dislocated Shoulder

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