In this video, a professor from Yale University presented a lecture about the classical views of disease. In chronological order, the professor started off with Hippocrates. He compared the thoughts of Hippocrates and his people of the supernatural reasons for medicine and the biblical stories. For example, Hippocrates believed that disease was a punishment from the gods, as the biblical view of this was with Adam and Eve. Then, the professor elaborated on was the idea of the four elements. The elements can be seen in multiple different cultures including Ayurvedic and Greco-Roman medicine known as Humourism. Narrowing in on Greco-Roman medicine, the professor talked about Galen, an authoritative interpreter of Hippocrates. Galen used
