History of Science 2151F/G Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hip, Venipuncture, Joint Dislocation

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Empirical tripod, empeiria, historia, autopsia (#184, #186) Used by empiricists (200 bc 200 ad) Empiricists based their treatment of patients on the empirical tripod which included: autopsia ( seeing for one"s self ): observing what treatments are helpful and harmful for each case through trial and error (pieria). With repetition, experience is gained, building a physician"s empeiria. E. g. if they find that fasting during a fever helps a patient, and the physician my try fasting on other patients. Hippocratics used humoral theory to treat fevers, while erasistratus would claim that it is because of blood from veins entering arteries and causing an irregular flow. However, for both, the treatment would be the same; venesection. Believed that nature could not be comprehended, which is opposite from the pre-socratics (650- 450 bc) who believed that nature has an order and could be understood through first principles.

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