going to discuss the differences between the Humoral concept of disease‚ the anatomical theory of disease‚ the germ theory of disease and the differences between each theory. I am also going to look at the historical significance of these theories and how they apply to health and wellness in today’s health care. The humoral theory comes from an ancient Greek theory that states that the human body is composed of four basic humors. The Humoral theory is derived from the word “humor‚” but in this
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Humoral‚ Anatomical and Germ Theories of Disease: The influence on today’s health and wellness. In humoral theory‚ individual diseases did not exist how we see them today. It was thought that if one of the four humors was out of balance‚ it would result in disease. The four humors are black bile‚ yellow bile‚ blood and phlegm. The basic theory was that the imbalance of one of these four humors was the root cause of all disease. Anatomical theory of disease is one that fights against the humoral
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The longest medical tradition‚ the humoral theory‚ lasted for more than 2000 years. In this theory water‚ air‚ earth and fire were the four elements that made up the universe. Just like the universe‚ the human body was made up of its own four fluids called humors. Phlegm was cold and wet like water; blood was hot and wet like air; black bile was cold and dry like earth; and yellow bile was hot and dry like fire. The elements represented the physical reality that people experienced. In health‚ the
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the germ theory in the nineteenth century revolutionized the understanding of how diseases were identified‚ what caused diseases‚ and set the tone for treatment options. Prior to the theory‚ methods of identifying and diagnosing a disease were inconsistent and often times too late‚ thus treatment options were often futile. Prevention was not a viable option due to the lack of understanding how and why certain individuals fell ill‚ impeding the development of effective treatment options. Germ theory’s
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Germ Theory The germ theory began in the late 1880s and began as the understanding that organisms beyond the view of man could exist. Bacteria were the first found microscopic items‚ and took a decade to prove. Job Lewis Smith‚ a pediatric doctor in the late nineteenth century began studying outbreaks of cholera. No other doctors were able to explain why the children were getting ill. He worked in the slums of New York and blamed the unsanitary conditions for many diseases. This was during a
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created standardized body directional terms and split the body into distinct regions and sections so that we can more clearly and rapidly locate and discuss anatomical features. There are many terms used to differentiate the positions of the body. A scientist developed the terms used to describe anatomical position. The anatomical position is a human standing straight‚ facing forward with their feet parallel‚ and arms hanging down at the side‚ and palms facing forward. There are three
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4‚ 2013 Problems with Monocausal Explanations of Disease The discovery of germs has been a long process in history and still ongoing today. John Waller‚ author of The Discovery of the Germ: Twenty Years That Transformed the Way We Think about Disease‚ has stated as his thesis in this book‚ “…between 1880 and 1900…medicine underwent perhaps its greatest ever transformation. In just 20 years‚ the central role of germs in producing illness was for the first time decisively demonstrated and Western
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Anatomical structure affects movement ability in the hip by the single non jointed structure of the pelvis. The pelvis rotates all three planes of movement. One movement is the rotating of the femur so that the acetabulum is positioned toward the direction of approaching femoral movement. Another is the posterior pelvic tilt‚ when the anterior superior iliac spine is tilted backward‚ it position the head of the femur in front of the hipbone to enable flexion. Lastly‚ anterior pelvic tilt enables
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Lab 1 Anatomical Orientation Name ____ For humans‚ anatomical terms are always referenced to an individual standing in what is known as the standard anatomical position. Thus‚ for such an individual‚ the sagittal (median) plane divides the body or an organ into left and right sides while a transverse (horizontal) plane divides the body or organ into superior (upper) and inferior (lower) portions‚ and a frontal (coronal) plane divides the body or organ into anterior and posterior sides. Other
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Mohammed Awad Ms.Putnam English 2 1 December 2010 Louis Pasteur was born on December 27 1822‚ in a town called Dole Eastern France. He had three sisters and one brother that died when he was 1 years old. Louis Pasteur’s sisters names were Jeanne Antoine Pasteur‚ Josephine Pasteur and Jeanne Emile Pasteur. Jean Denis was his brother name and their mother name was Jean Pasteur. Their father owned a tanner and worked to make leather. His father was once in the army and won lots of
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