AS.140.105 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 Notes

• School: JHU
• Department: AS History of Science & Technology, AS History, AS Public Health Studies
• Course: AS.140.105
• Professor: Le Jacq, Seth Stein

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Hippocratic medicine: religious healing, philosophy and medicine, hippocratic medicine. Snakes can shed its skin: getting rid of stuff (i. e. expelling fluids that your body doesn"t need) is a very important component of medical thought in the. Ancient greek world: asklepion: pilgrims would come from all over the mediterranean world to get divine healing in these places; this became the precursor to spa-towns f. i. You can also go and see regular doctors, who can administer you with non- religious means f. ii. There was no opposition between the two schools of medical thought f. iii. Incubation was the process by which one sleeps in a temple and asklepius approaches and heals them in their dream, not just using miracle techniques, but naturalistic ones as well. Incubation happened elsewhere (i. e. ancient egypt) evidence for cross- cultural contact f. iv. f. iv. 1. Exchange of drugs and medical recipes for healing substances: there is evidence of people claiming that asklepian medicine worked (i. e. as seen in.