Medicine. I will talk about the importance of both Galen and the Hippocrates and what they did to improve the importance of medicine.

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Assessment 2 - exam questions on medicine

Throughout the essay I will talk about the importance of both Galen and the Hippocrates and what they did to improve the importance of medicine.  Firstly I will talk about Asclepia and what part in medicine he played, and then I shall talk about the way the Hippocrates improved medicine.  Then finally what Galen did in his time and why he was so important.

Asclepia’s was a Greek God, and he was the God of healing, he was helped by his daughters who are name after to scientific words they are named Panacea and Hygeia, they helped him throughout his healing process and being a God.  Asclepia had temples named after him called Asclepion’s; this was a quiet place that people went to, they believed if they went there to stay there for the night that they would be healed in the night by Asclepia and his daughters, and the next morning they would wake up completely normal again.  Around the buildings there were other places to do with health care, such as baths or a gymnasium to keep fit, it was also very quiet so that people could sleep and rest in peace.  Gods were a part of everyday life for all most every person, so if they couldn’t afford treatment then they wouldn’t think twice about going to see there God, seeing your God was never a last resort many people chose to go there first.  People thought that if they went to sleep inside the temple the God would come and see them and heal them, but it wasn’t actually this, it was the fact that they were being given warmth, food, and appliances to keep them fit and the most needed one, rest.  This was the main reason why people who went in there came back out feeling well again, but people didn’t know this they simply thought it was the God Asclepia’s and his daughters healing them.

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        Hippocrates improved the way of Greek medicine, for a starter he didn’t believed that a God would cause illness so therefore he must find a reason to back this up and he did.  He found out the foundations of everything to do with medicine.  He managed to find out that there is a link between scientific problems with the problems of medicine and when the two were placed together a lot of extra answers were found out.  Although some of the things that he came up with weren’t necessarily right they still made improvements and changed the medicine was used. ...

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