CLA219H1 Lecture Notes - Burnup, Phlegm
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The next midterm will be focused on the next lectures. A lot of medical texts were preserved . Many of the ancient cures were peculiar but it is interesting to study it in the social context. To this day anyone who practices medicine swears by the hyppocratic oath. Hippocrates: island of cos countless writings translated under the name of hippocrates but most are probs not authentic. Corpus (body- also can be applied to a body of work) hippocratecum (its an adjective that modifies the word. 460 bc - known for his text on the sacred disease: epilepsy. Regarded as sent by the gods- that a god or deamon takes ahold of you and makes you do what they do. Swears by apollo and asclepius (the son of appolo) In the oath, you swear not to perform abortions, to have sex with patients. In the corpus, there is quite a lot of anatomy and gynecology.
