ANCIENT GREEK: INVENTIONS AND METHODOLOGIES IN

MEDICINE
INTRODUCTION
✣ Greek civilization emerged around 700 B.C.E. and continued until around
600 C.E.
✣ ancient Greeks embraced the concept of "a healthy mind in a healthy body,"
Hippocrates
✣ Ancient Greek physician
✣ Founder of the Hippocratic School of Medicine
✣ “Father of Medicine”
INVENTIONS
Clepsydra or Greek water clock
✣ a portable water clock used by Herophilus for the purpose of arterial pulse
examination
✣ capable of containing a specified amount of water for natural pulse beats of
every age.
Pyoulkos (syringe)
✣ medical instrument similar to the contemporary syringe
✣ used for the removal of pus with suction and for the addition of liquids with
depression (injection).
Spoon of Diocles
✣ medical instrument used in antiquity
✣ designed by Diocles of Carystus to remove arrows from the human body
✣ The instrument was used to remove the injured eye of Philip II without
disfiguring him.

Hippocratic Bench
 ✣ also known as the scamnum
✣ invented by the Greek  physician Hippocrates
✣ uses tension to settle the bones in a patients’ body.
Tampons
✣ ancient Greeks invented tampons made from lint wrapped around a small
piece of wood
BELIEFS AND METHODOLOGIES
✣ Pythagoras was a mathematician who brought his theory of numbers into the
natural sciences.
✣ His followers believed that numbers had precise meanings, especially the
numbers 4 and 7.
They noted that:
✣ 7 x 4 is 28, the length of the lunar month and the menstrual cycle
✣ 7 x 40 is 280, the number of days of a full-term pregnancy
✣ They also believed that a baby that was born in the seventh month, rather
than the eighth, would enjoy better health.
✣ The 40-day quarantine period to avoid disease contagion comes from the
idea that the number 40 is sacred.
✣ The Olympic Games, which began in ancient Greece, raised the need for
people to keep healthy in order to promote fitness and prevent injury.
✣ Techniques included using olive oil to raise body temperature and the
practice of warming up before competing to avoid injury.

The Four Humors

GROUP 3
Cachola, Alliah
Bayaborda, Harlyn
Garcia, Arjay
Castillo, Shannen
Peconcillos, Jhovelyn