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History of bucc-
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Bucca- cheek, loudmouth (latin)
related to buckle (english), strap across cheek of roman helmets
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History of cheir-, chir-
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Greek for "hand"
chiropractor and surgeon related
"working with the hands"
French chirurgien--surgeon
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History of omphal-
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Greek, centre of greek world
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History of umbilic-
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Latin, omphalos from delphi
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History of path-
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Disease
greek pathos-- suffering, experience
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History of -gram
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Graphein "to write" (greek)
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Homer
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Wrote:
The Iliad and The Odyssey
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Hippocrates
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5th century BC Greek
"Father of Medicine"
60 medical works in his name
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Plato
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Contempory with HIppocrates
interested in relationship bt soul and body
all theoretical
influential work-->Timaeus
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Aristotle
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Comparative anatomy
empirical investigations
systemic classification of natural world
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Dioscorides
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1st century AD Greek
physician and pharmacologist
De Materia Medica
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Soranus
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2nd century AD Greek
physician
Gynaecia medical work that survived in Greek
latin translations of other work
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Galen
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2nd century AD Greek
physician
100s of medical texts
NB dissection work
theories influential on history of western medicine
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4 Humors
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Earth
air
water
fire
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Dogmatism
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Various theories of disease
NB understanding of human anatomy
patient is individual
Galen, Hippocrates
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