Greek+Medicine

 

Greek doctors were called Hippocrates. Greek doctors believed that you are made up of four "humors". The four humors were phlegm, yellow bile, black bile, and blood. They thought that if you had too much of one humor, that that was what caused you to be sick. Say if you had a fever, to Hippocrates, that meant you had a fever. So the Hippocrates would either cut open a part of your body to drain some blood from you body, or they used leeches to sucks the extra blood out. Hippocrates also thought that the climate of an area effected how much of the humors you had in your body. For example, if you were in a cold, wet climate, it was said to cause you to have too much phlegm in your body. So people would move to a more dry and warmer climate to fix that. The Hippocratic Oath exclaims that "Hippocratic" medicine was was used by physicians that were bounded to an ethical code.



By: Joel

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