BPK 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Penicillin, Germ Theory Of Disease
12 May 2016
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Bpk 140 section 1: medicine in history. In the times of the pharaohs, since the cause of diseases was not known, illness was caused by evil spirits/supernatural forces. While healers were usually unable to treat the specific disease, they never underestimated the restorative powers of a reassuring touch . They split their medical treatment between sleeping in temples of the gods, treating the 4 basic humors, and getting treated by physicians" based on the advancement of medicine largely attributed to hippocrates. The 4 basic humors are blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. Hippocrates became known as the father of medicine because he used clinical observation, documented these observations, and tried to explain disease. Despite the efforts of hippocrates and others, strong dependence on humorism remained for over a thousand years. After the end of the roman empire, there was really no progress in medicine; in fact medicine took a step backwards. The church believed illness was a punishment from.
