HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hippocratic Corpus, Phlegm, Sleepwalking
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History can help us to explain why the world looks the way it does, and why forces continue to shape it: primary sources: materials written by the people that lived in the times period being studied, ex. Letters, diaries, medical records: oral histories: may focus on memory: useful when we want to learn about people"s behaviours and experiences (culturally specific and appropriate, historical materialism, hippocrates. Emphasis on good food and drink: categories of illnesses: acute, chronic, endemic, epidemic, symptomatology (e. g. , in thoracic medicine, seek for natural causes, three determinants of health/disease. Things naturall: physiology- earth, air, fire and water. Non-naturalls: things external to the body but within under. Mans"s control to some degree passions/retention, diet/evacuation, sleep/walking, foul air: humorism. An ancient theory of the human body and a system of medicine. Four humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile) that correspond with four seasons and four temperaments (sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic, melancholic)