Medicine in the Ancient World c10,000 BC - c500 AD
Subjects / History / Medicine through Time
In this section we're going to learn about how our ancestors dealt with illness thousands of years ago. Obviously, they weren't able to nip down to casualty every time they had an accident, or pop into the chemist for some aspirin to treat their headaches. As we'll see, though, some of the treatments and methods they used laid some important foundations for modern medicine. Prehistoric man knew a thing or two about natural cures, while the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all realised the importance of keeping clean - something we forgot about in England for a few centuries. Meanwhile, ancient doctors such as Hippocrates and Galen started to really pay attention to how illnesses affected their patients.
| Author: | Sally Thorne | Publisher: | GCSEPod® |
| Narrator: | Peter McGowan | ISBN: | 978-1-84906-049-3 |
| Video ISBN: | 978-1-84906-549-8 |
Chapters
- Finding out about Prehistoric Societies
- Spirits, Medicine Men and Natural Cures
- Egyptian Civilisation and its Impact on Medicine
- Egyptian Gods, Hygiene and Mummification
- Healthy Living and the Greek Asclepia
- Hippocrates and his Big Ideas
- Ancient Greece: The Rise of Thinkers and Knowledge
- Galen and Roman Medicine
- Roman Public Health
Exam Board Relevance
- Edxcel
- AQA
- CEA
- IGCSE (EdExcel)
- OCR
- SQA
- WJEC
- IGCSE (CiE)
Includes original GCSEPod image art. Additional pictorial images created by Damon Smith
Curriculum and Exam Board Information
Key Issues
Titles
Chapters
- Prehistoric societies: role of magic, surgery; parallels with traditional aboriginal societies
- Ancient Egypt: supernatural and natural approaches to medicine
- Ancient Greece: the importance of healthy living, the cult of Asklepios, development of the Theory of the Four Humours, Alexandria
- Ancient Rome: the development of public health, the influence of Greek medicine, medicine in the Army
- Key individuals: Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen
- Ideas of cause and cure; the recording and transmission of knowledge in Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and in the Muslim world
- Public health provision in Ancient Rome and in England in the Middle Ages
- The role of key individuals: Hippocrates and Galen
- the nature of the evidence, its values and its problems
- beliefs in spirits and the treatments used by medicine men
- practical knowledge and resulting treatments
- the development of Egyptian civilisation and its impact on medicine
- the co-existence in Egyptian society of spiritual and natural beliefs and treatments
- developments in the understanding of physiology, anatomy and the causes of disease
- Egyptian hygiene
- Asclepios and temple medicine
- the theory of the four humours and resulting treatments
- Hippocrates and the clinical method of observation
- health and hygiene
- developments in knowledge of anatomy and surgery at Alexandria
- Roman medicine and Greek ideas and doctors
- the Romans and public health
- Galen's ideas about physiology, anatomy and treatment
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