History of Science 2220 Lecture 7: History-of-Medicine-Lecture-7

• School: Western University
• Department: History of Science
• Course: History of Science 2220
• Professor: Lawrence Burns

Document Summary

Greek medicine sort of came out of no where, it is a new way of thinking similar to modern medicine. Ancient greek medicine is incomparably closer to modern medicine than any other historical form of medicine (ackerknecht, 47) What is this magical greek attitude or spirit. Terminology -> little bit of roman, greek as well. Rationality and myth ancient greek medicine is incomparably closer to modern medicine than any other historical form of medicine. Mediterranean sea unites a lot of the different civilizations, After greece, rome was the main source of medicine essentially islands greek is not a homogenous land mass - compromised of various. Actual modern knowledge comes from medieval europe, hinges on greece. Greece to rome to medieval christianity and islam and into the. Greeks passed their knowledge onto rome which contributed to christianity and islam and than into the renaissance.