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Prehistory Egyptian Greek
Prehistory Egyptian Greek
By
Under Guidance of
Prof. LM Khan
HOD, Organon of Medicine, National Institute of Medicne
31st August 2010 1
If no use were to be made of labors of the
past ages, the world must remain in the
infancy of Knowledge.
- CICIRO
Anthropology
• Ebers Papyrus (16th century BC): Incantation and foul application meant for
disease causing demons
• Chester Beatty Papyrus (12th century BC): For headache and anorectal
ailments
• Carlsberg Papyrus (2nd century BC): Deals with eye disease and
Pregnancy
Greek God
of
Hygieia : Hygiene
Laso: Medicine
Aceso: Healing
Hygieia
FATHER OF MEDICINE
VIS-MEDICATRIX NATURAE
• yellow bile,
• phlegm and
• black bile.
• chronic,
• endemic and
• epidemic.
• To this end Hippocrates and his follower instituted for the first time
through going examination of patient’s condition including facial
appearance, pulse, temperature, respiration, excreta, sputum,
localized pains and movements of the body.
• They gave several clinical signs which still hold its importance in
modern medicine few important among them were
– Hippocratic facies, - Clubbing of fingers,
Father of Biology
Student of Plato
Teacher of Alexander
the Great
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Father of Biology
• He was the man who gave medicine the beginning
of
• botany,
• zoology,
• comparative anatomy,
• embryology,
• Teratology,
• physiology,
• He noted the
• beat of foetal heart,
• oviparous,
• gemmulous,
• spontaneous generation.
– On Interpretation,
– Prior Analytics,
– Posterior Analytics,
– Topics, and
– Sophistical Refutations.