CLASSIC 148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Techne, Anaximander, First Principle
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In antiquity, physicians would travel from place to place, would form contracts with cities to stay there for a few years. May make a home in a city if there is a large enough population and plenty of resources to support them. May do public demonstrations, explain structure of animals, thus advertising themselves. May also perform debates or speeches showing off knowledge of medicine to fight for a contract. In addition, may treat patients in public or some non-private forum. In antiquity, privacy wasn"t very important, patients often treated in public, used as form of advertisement. In antiquity, people felt that knowledge of medicine was essential to education. Laypeople would often watch physicians to get feel of technological progress. Different illnesses arise because of a different cause. Diagnosis: what you have; in antiquity, was basic because didn"t know cause of most illnesses, prognosis was most important.
