CT203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, Pneumonic Plague, Thatching
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Galen (130 210 ce: follower of socrates, health status vary in non-random ways like their environment, etc, empirical observation done, 4 humours must be at play balances were changed by factors, physician to marcus aurelius. Saw disease as an imbalance in the four humours cause by: Nutrition: less health problems if you do not rely on bread. Veins: deoxygenated blood, towards the lungs. Nerves: related organs as well, innovation is impaired. Built on what they greeks left for them. Person from rome eats bread, lettuce, lamb, grape leaves, olive oil, etc. Not much diversity in the foods eaten. Christianity gained prominence in rome during a period of repeated epidemic disease. The preoccupation with charity and healing, along with a notion of the afterlife as a reward for a lifetime of sufering made it more appealing than. Pagan religions: clear failed to protect the populace. As an entrenched religion, christianity ofered less comfort: christians espoused a moral/spiritual explanation of disease.
