The Healing Power of Nature Hippocrates “the Father of Medicine”
The Healing Power of Nature
Hippocrates
“The Father of medicine”
PS404 History and Systems of Psychology
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In early Greek medicine, Hippocrates; the most important figure in medicine during this period, adopted a holistic approach to medicine which presented that all disease results from natural causes and must be treated using natural methods. This research report examines the identification of the present application in two separate cultural settings and compares the applications in order to analyze the potential future trends for the theoretical idea.
The Healing Power of Nature
Hippocrates
“The Father of medicine”
Introduction Medicine was second to mathematics during the ancient Greek civilization. Sick people during this time period reported to temples that were specifically dedicated to the “Greek God of Healing” known as Asclepius for their cures. During this time, a man named Hippocrates known to this civilization as the great ancient Greek physician began teaching that every disease had only natural causes. Hippocrates; born on the island of Kos, Greece, travelled widely before settling to practice and teach medicine. Although little was known about his life he most certainly wrote a large selection of the approximately 60 texts that consist of the well known Hippocratic Collection. The Hippocratic collection was composed between c.420 and 350BC which assisted in defining the beginning of Western medical traditions and practices. The Hippocratic works, although written by many hands and included several of theoretical ideas, it dealt with many aspects of health and disease to include diagnosis, surgery, hygiene, and therapeutics. Amongst these treatises were some of his very best to include: The Sacred Disease which dealt with epilepsy and his conclusion that the cause was a blockage in the brain, Airs, Waters and Places which examined the roles of environmental conditions in the cause of disease,
Hippocrates
“The Father of medicine”
PS404 History and Systems of Psychology
Student Name
Abstract
In early Greek medicine, Hippocrates; the most important figure in medicine during this period, adopted a holistic approach to medicine which presented that all disease results from natural causes and must be treated using natural methods. This research report examines the identification of the present application in two separate cultural settings and compares the applications in order to analyze the potential future trends for the theoretical idea.
The Healing Power of Nature
Hippocrates
“The Father of medicine”
Introduction Medicine was second to mathematics during the ancient Greek civilization. Sick people during this time period reported to temples that were specifically dedicated to the “Greek God of Healing” known as Asclepius for their cures. During this time, a man named Hippocrates known to this civilization as the great ancient Greek physician began teaching that every disease had only natural causes. Hippocrates; born on the island of Kos, Greece, travelled widely before settling to practice and teach medicine. Although little was known about his life he most certainly wrote a large selection of the approximately 60 texts that consist of the well known Hippocratic Collection. The Hippocratic collection was composed between c.420 and 350BC which assisted in defining the beginning of Western medical traditions and practices. The Hippocratic works, although written by many hands and included several of theoretical ideas, it dealt with many aspects of health and disease to include diagnosis, surgery, hygiene, and therapeutics. Amongst these treatises were some of his very best to include: The Sacred Disease which dealt with epilepsy and his conclusion that the cause was a blockage in the brain, Airs, Waters and Places which examined the roles of environmental conditions in the cause of disease,
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