HIST 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Hypochondrium, Sputum, Pus
9 Jun 2018
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HIST 449- Jan 30/18
Hippocratic Therapeutics
Part 1: How to prepare for disease and the best ways to cure diseases
Prognosis
Prognosis as preparedness
• Excellent thing for a physician to practice forecasting
• Preparedness can mean being mentally and physically appear
• Fill in the gaps given by the sick
• Good to know from the present symptoms what will come up later
• No certifications, no licensing- you must be persuaded by other means that a
doctor is competent
• Prognosis as a way to gain confidence
• Predictions of the disease
• You also must be able to forecast diseases that are incurable
• You are blameless if you learn and declare beforehand if someone is going to
die and if someone is going to live
• Refusal of treatment does not appear very often in the Hippocratic corpus
• Incurability is on a spectrum, you can decline them or stop acute from
becoming chronic- you should not ignore the chronic cases
The doctors resources
• Bullet points for what doctors are supposed to know
• What do you check?
• The face and eyes, posture and appearance, gestures, breathing, sweat,
hypochondrium
• Each one of these resources are the chapter names of prognosis
• More resources- hot and cold, sleep, stools, urine, vomit, sputum, signs of
empyema, abscesses
Logismos = adding it all up
• Logismos can mean literally adding things, and cognitively add things up
• You must take into account the good signs and the bad signs and make your
prediction
• Empyemas last different amount of days- pus filled abscess
The doctors Equipment, text: Decorum
• What the doctor should have at hand
• You must have a good bag full of stuff and lots of experience
• You must have prepared emoillents and powerful draughts
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Document Summary
Part 1: how to prepare for disease and the best ways to cure diseases. Incurability is on a spectrum, you can decline them or stop acute from becoming chronic- you should not ignore the chronic cases. Part 2: regimen- a nicer form of medicine. Plato scorns regimen: contemporary of hippocrates and generally has good things to say about him, but, his opinions are divided over regimen, not quick fix, wont fix you overnight. Morality: religion in relation to moral stances, precepts is about being generous, where there is love of man there is also love of the art. Thinking with von staden: contra ludwig edelstein, thinks that they are two separate oaths that were stuck together artificially, thought the prohibition section was from. Pythagoras: von staden is against this idea, thinks that the oath is personal but not private- has a lot of first person pronouns.
