HLTB41H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Allopathic Medicine, Rudolf Virchow, Edward Jenner
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Chapter 12: medicine, medical dominance, and public health. Shamans used prayer, incantations, spells, and sacrifices to drive away or appease the gods or spi(cid:396)its thought to (cid:271)e (cid:396)espo(cid:374)si(cid:271)le fo(cid:396) people"s ill(cid:374)esses: they also used herbal medicine. Hippocrates father of medicine: considered medicine a science, rejected spiritual reasons and said every disease only had natural causes, humoral theory of disease. Air, earth, fire, and water had a particular humour. Blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. Ea(cid:396)ly ch(cid:396)istia(cid:374)s att(cid:396)i(cid:271)uted disease a(cid:374)d ill(cid:374)ess as a pu(cid:374)ish(cid:373)e(cid:374)t fo(cid:396) si(cid:374) o(cid:396) a test fo(cid:396) o(cid:374)e"s commitment to god. Medieval era: medical practice was controlled by the church. Renaissance era: scientific approach to medical knowledge and practice, humoral theory rejected, physicians who graduated from med school provided diagnosis and treatment to the wealthy, surgery was practiced by barbers therefore only for the low class. Managed open wounds and repaired broken bones: apothecaries early pharmacists.