HLTB16H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: National Cancer Institute, Prostate Cancer, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Hippocrates (460 -377bce) father of modern medicine. Physician who had a perspective in health, which helped develop medicine. All matter made up of 4 elements earth, air, fire, water. Each possess corresponding qualities of cold, dry, hot, & moist. These elements carried the body by 4 humors (bodily fluids: phlegm , yellow bile choler, secreted by liver, blood gall, secreted by kidneys and spleen, black bile gall, secreted by kidneys and spleen. Disease is a product of a disturbance in the bodily humours or from climate and weather effects: health = good balance of humours. Even chinese, indian-ayurvedic, and latin american they have this belief of an imbalance of cold and hot foods they adapted this from hippocrates. Public health concerns gave up a very long ago, especially after we became farmers. Public health concern is not just a concern of health, but sanitation. Key figure in the hisotircal development of epidemiology and public health.
