HISTORY 3S03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Kinesiology, Yellow Fever, Germ Theory Of Disease
17 Sep 2016
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1. 1 #jack berryman, exercise is medicine: a historical perspective. 9(4)(july/august 2010), 195-201. physician"s duties: preservation and promotion of health/prevention of disease strong emphasis on health rather than disease: dates back to hippocrates and. Galen medical theory: based on hippocrates: 6 things non-natural air food/drink sleep/wake. Motion and rest excretions and retentions passions of the mind: imbalance led to disease ancient medicine promoted notion that people are responsible for disease and health, not a higher power. Christobal mendez: book of bodily exercise 1553: exercise is blessed medicine. 1700s: intervention tactics were practical alternatives to traditional therapies: bloodletting, blistering, heavy dosing with compounds of mercury. Francis fuller: medical gymnastics 1700s: exercise linked to preservation of health. Idleness and luxury create more diseases than labour and industry ny. American association for the advancement of physical education: professional group founded by m. ds of major universities. Early 1900s: heroic medicine replaced with less invasive alternatives treatments.
