Classical Studies 1000 Final: Classics 1000 Study Notes - Term 2

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Christopher Brown

Document Summary

Hippocratic corpus is an ancient medical text that outlines and analyzes disease: emphasis on balance and morbid imbalance. Galen gladiator turned physician: used the four-humour system: Juices are essential constituents of the human body: three organic systems: Greeks did not practice dissection because it was an act of desecration and mutilation of the dead. Extispicy = gazing at guts ; religious practice used to make inference about organs often performed on sacrificed animals by a priest. Herophilus greek physician who worked in close proximity to egyptian [ractice so he culd explore the inside of the human body for the first time: performed vivisectory experiments on criminals (opened up living people) Erasistratus formulated the general principles for discussing anatomy. Greeks thought the brain ( enkephalos , myelos ) was semen saw marrow and brain matter as the same thing. During the classical period, thought that consciousness and the organs of thought were in chest.