HIST 249 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mucokinetics, Vomiting, Barley Water
16 Sep 2016
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Lecture 4 - sept 15 (continuation of lecture 3) Homer (850 bce): disease is a thing. Hesiod (750-650 bce) works and days: diseases spontaneously come upon man continually day and night. Hippocrates: disease is nature , even if it is hostile to human nature. Part of nature even if it is hostile to human nature. Using analogy words to define disease that often have philosophical meaning. Metabolism, metabolic organic changes within the human body. Ethical side to it: virtuous people were rewarded for the regularity of their life. Imagine disease as a war with the human body. One of which is going to win and lose. To be polluted you cannot enter the shrine of god to offer prayers or sacrifices. You have to cleanse and this takes time in order to remove the pollutants. Diseases (names diseases; focus on illness as entity) versus epidemics (no names; focus on illness as event)
