BIOM 3090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Phlebotomy, Phlegm, Evidence-Based Medicine
1 Jan 2018
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The body can fix itself, early medicine" would claim that there was help when in fact there wasn"t. Galen was a physician to roman gladiators. Origins of medicine in europe; fire was associated with bile from gallbladder, wind corresponded to blood. The correspondences were not discovered, they were imagined. In winter humoral balance would produce phlegm and cause colds as the weather was cold and rainy in. Take home message slides are testable only the rest is to help out. Pca louis in france bled patients and used statistics to determine how many lives he was saving. France imported 42 million leaches to bleed people b/c it was less painful (was used for basically every illness) He studied the success of people being bled acutely ill with pneumonia where more than half survive at least 2 months. But if you couldn"t bleed them acutely ill, 80% survived.
