CLST 214 Study Guide - Final Guide: Outline Of Human Anatomy, Chyle, Herophilos

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 214
• Professor: Daryn Lehoux

Document Summary

Alexandrian medicine: 3rd c. bc ~50 years: herophilus, erasitratus, human anatomy studied. 3 main schools of medicine at rome: dogmatists: basically hippocratic, opposed to empiricists, empiricists: knowledge is from what we can observe no theory as to what is inside someone"s body, methodists: alternative medicine in rome. Medicine learned in six months, on constriction and relaxation can happen in the body. Bodies could not be opened in galen time: studied at alexandria when ptolemy did, (cid:498)the prognosis(cid:499) details his journey as a doctor in rome. Could diagnose based on symptoms accurate to hour. Moved fluid around the body to draw out with diuretics and using: encountered: corpse of robber, washed up body. Eat food blood blood to heart pumped to other parts used up/gone. Chyle: bowels turn food into this, the liver turns it into blood, heart sucks. Breathing: breath taken into body becomes pneuma heart takes pneuma (left chamber) and blood into body.