HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Germ Theory Of Disease, Humorism, Phlegm
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-disease is not a divine thing---punishment for supernatural. -when there is an imbalance in micro and macro. -hippocrates rejected ideas of divine/supernatural influences to disease. -humoral theory: belief that body has 4 liqs. -disease happens when there"s too much or too less of on---imbalance. --connected these 4 humors to seasons, temperaments, elements (air, water, earth, fire) 2. then surrounded by seasons: effects humors. 4. intern shaped by hot, wet, cold, dry. -bodies are subject to the same rules/natural laws. 4 key organs effected by the state of imbalance: Miasma as a cause of disease (foul/bad air) generated by tiny particles (until 1800"s it was not questionable---replaced by germ theory) -pollution from rotting organic matter//contaminated water, air, etc. Evolving theories of disease causations: paradigm shift, miasma was no longer believed. ---john snow: father of pidemiology 1854, outbreak of cholera in his studies. The body in western medicine: (hippocrates to john snow)
