HLTB16H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vibrio, Ayurveda, Overconsumption
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History of public health / intro to epidemiology. Us as people have always been interested in the health of the. But industrialization really kick-started it, and created a need for population and public health it. Industrialization associated with the flocking and entering towards cities (to be more productive in terms of jobs: higher concentrations of people in cities in proximity, great concern regarding these growing/increasingly dense cities. Hippocrates (c. 460-370 b. c. e. ) figure) prospective of health that was well and widely adopted) Early greek physician (really innovative guy made him a key. Father of medicine, father of epidemiology (came up with a. All matter made up of 4 elements: earth, air, fire, water. Each posses corresponding qualities of cold, dry, hot, and moist. These elements carried in the body by 4 humors (bodily fluids): phlegm, yellow bile (choler, secreted by liver), blood and black bile (gall, secreted by kidneys and spleen)
