CLA 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Walking Stick, Asclepius, Diarrhea

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1101
• Professor: Heather Loube

Document Summary

Please note: the following information from pages 160-161 applies to roman. Greece which we will not be studying: amphiarios, cult of asklepios at pergamon or, galen. Hygeia and panacea: godesses of healing. Walking stick with snake (snake represent healing) Snakes and dogs both had healing properties. Created school for doctors and bedside sare. The hippocratic oath: emphasis professional standards and conduct. Theory of 4 humours: 4 fluids (yellow bile, black bile, phlegm, blood, 4 basic elements (fire, earth, water, air, 4 qualities (dry, cold, wet, hot) Balancing the humours: too much blood = blood letting, cupping (draw blood to where needed) Hippocratic corpus: the sacred disease (epilepsy) Imbalance of phlegm: epidemics, 42 cases, 60% death rate, observation, prognosis, could not diagnose it. Once healed, you dedicated clay body parts to asklepios (god of healing) Believed in naturally caused diseases (instead of gods) Cure for disease was diet, exercise, fresh air, water. Pneumonia (pneuma is the greek words of lungs)