C C 306M Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ancient Greek Medicine, Hippocratic Corpus, Spina Bifida
20 Jan 2017
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Modern medicine began in greece with hippocrates and galen. Ancient greek models of disease have been strongly influential on our practice of medicine up into the 19th century. 50-60 words were ascribed to hippocrates because he was known as the most iconic and renowned great physician. N. b. (nota bene): iatr-= medicine iatros (healer) physician. The romans conquered greece and much of the. Mediterranean world and many greek medical texts were translated to latin during this time. Lingua franca whose native languages are different) for science and medicine (a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers. Etymology - the study of the origins and historical meanings of words. Etymos: compound terms, loan words, eponyms [gr. Transliteration- the transposition of a word from one language to another. Elision - the omission of a vowel when one word element is joined to another root ends with the same vowel as the suffix begins.
