History of Science 2151F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Corpuscular Theory Of Light, Venipuncture, Soranus Of Ephesus
22 Apr 2016
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Acute, chronic, metasyncritical treatment, restorative treatment (#187, fig. Themison (100 bc) categorized diseases into acute or chronic. Acute meaning quick diseases and chronic meaning slow: similar to how aristotle categorized animals into blood possessing or not, and viviparous, and oviparous. Acute disease would have 4 phases: the beginning phase, the increasing phase where the disease progresses, the stationary phase which is the height of the disease, and the declining phase where the disease diminishes. Each of these 4 phases could then be divided again into the 3 phases (e. g. in the stationary phase/height of the disease, there could be an increasing, stationary, and declining phase) Note that the stationary phase is comparable to the crisis of humoral theory in. Hippocratic medicine: acute diseases could either mean quick as in quick death, or quick healing due to spontaneous rearrangement of corpuscles. Based on asclepiades" corpuscular theory that the body is made up of tiny corpuscles (200/100.
