What links these images?
Lesson Objectives To identify the key approaches to cause and cure of disease in the Ancient World To explain the ‘dual approach’ to medicine To evaluate the significance of the ancient ideas to the development of medical theories
Prehistoric Trepanning If illness obvious, (broken bone) = natural approach If illness not obvious, (headache) = supernatural approach (evil spirits)
Ancient Egypt The Natural Theory of disease, based on the River Nile However, doctors were also priests and magicians so linked to supernatural = Dual Approach
Ancient Greece Cult of Asclepius Asclepius = God of Medicine Supernatural approach
Ancient Greece The Theory of the 4 Humours Hippocrates Humours = liquids in the body Illness is caused when liquids are out of balance, (too much or too little) First ever totally natural theory
Ancient Rome Romans conquered the Greeks and kept some of their ideas including Cult of Asklepios Galen adapted Theory of 4 Humours and developed the ‘Theory of Opposites’ Balance the humour with the opposite reaction
Why were the ideas of the Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans so important?