Talk:Ancient Greek medicine

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Merge

Don't merge At this point I would prefer not to merge, unless every treatise in the Hippocratic Corpus is going to receive a multiparagraph summary in this article. Ancient Medicine describes one Greek author's fantasy of what s/he thinks the history of medicine is like. Maestlin 03:24, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I agree. But I leave open in the future for a possible merge once both articles are in better shape. I leave a See also section linking it with Ancient Medicine. --Francisco Valverde 14:19, 7 May 2006 (UTC)yes if you really think so then[reply]

parsimony and the export of some text

I found the account of Aristotles' biology to have lapsed into digression; consequently I shortened it. I found some of the content to be missing from the general article on Aristotle and hope to fit it in thereCAPONETC)

Good Source

There is an excellent account of the intellectual history of western medicine, from ancient Greece up to the end of the 19th century, in the online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica [www.1911encyclopedia.org]. It is much longer than is customary for a Wikipedia article, but it makes the five main schools of ancient medical thought all the more understandable for that. In contrast, the Catholic encyclopedia (also available online) has a clearer "point of view," which sometimes boils down to "Arabs bad - dogmatics/scholastics good."

These accounts must both be a century or so old, so it may not be appropriate to transfer their contents here wholesale: anyway most people who can access Wikipedia could look at them directly. NRPanikker (talk) 14:26, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Male and Female doctors in Ancient Greek

There are good primary sources listed here (as obtained from epigraphic records as well as ancient sourced records) of the role of women and women doctors in particular for child-bearing. Here's the link: http://www.ajol.info/index.php/actat/article/viewfile/52571/41177

Anyboyd bold and brave to make a section of the role of women doctors in Ancient Greek societies? 124.180.192.113 (talk) 23:59, 9 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the link. I don't quite know what would be "bold and brave" about writing this up, but the discussion would need to be guided by reliable modern secondary sources. I'll dig around a bit. ^davidiad _.: 02:51, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

reference 3 (father of modern medicine) is not working, it seems to be a dead end. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.241.43.50 (talk) 16:08, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dioscorides

I think that adding some more information on Dioscorides would be beneficial to this article. Unfortunately I do not know of any good places to get information on him but I know he was a huge figure to medicine all the way through the middle ages. I just feel like it would be a good addition to the overall article to have some more history on him. I think it is a great informative article overall though! Bakeore (talk) 22:11, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Minor edits

A lot of great information, and I love the fact that you have pictures as well. I only have some minor edits that I think might add to the quality  of your already great work.

Early on, Ancient Greeks believed that illnesses were “divine punishments” and that healing was a “gift from the Gods.” the "g" in "gods" should not be capitalized.

In your second paragraph at the beginning of your article, I feel like you could take " Humorism refers to blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm" out completely, as paragraph 3 seems to treat better discuss the concept of humorism.

Diet was thought to be an issue as well and might be affected by a lack of access to adequate nourishment. You could rephrase this to "poor diet was thought to be an issue as well."

and you could also rephrase  "availability of clean drinking water" to "lack of clean water". I think it sounds better  this way. ( all of this edits are from paragraph two).

Finally, I noticed that some concepts that were discussed in each paragraph did not really tie together, for instance the part of paragraph three were u talked about Hippocrates, (Hippocrates, known as the "Father of Modern Medicine", established a medical school at Kos and is the most important figure in ancient Greek medicine. [3] Hippocrates and his students documented numerous illnesses in the Hippocratic Corpus, and developed the Hippocratic Oath for physicians, which is still in use today. The contributions to ancient Greek medicine of Hippocrates, Socrates and others had a lasting influence on Islamic medicine and Medieval European medicine until many of their findings eventually became obsolete in the 14th century.) may actually fit better into the paragraph beneath it.Mbar3466 (talk) 01:20, 17 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]