Essay On Ancient Greek Medicine

Did you know that the Greek took their medicine very seriously? They thought that illness was a punishment from the gods but it also could have been a gift. They later found some scientific reasons why there would be diseases. They also used various tools to perform a surgery. Let’s learn more about the Ancient Greeks’ medicine. The Greek medicine had advanced over the years. It first started with illness being described as a punishment from the gods. In the 5th century B.C.E, some people were trying to find out what created sickness and whether or not illness was a punishment from the gods. A man named Hippocrates believed that the reason for illness had natural causes. He had changed the way of how many people thought about medicine. Greek doctors looked for symptoms that caused the diseases and looked towards scientific questions. Some of the major health problems in Greece were caused by malnutrition, dehydration, hypothermia, fever and typhoid. …show more content…
The scalpel are still a commonly used tool today. There are two types of scalpels; the large scalpel, and the small scalpel. The large scalpel was used to make deeper and longer cuts while the smaller scalpel was used for careful and more precise cuts around places like the ribs. Hooks are still used today as medical tools. There are two types of hooks, the sharp hook and the blunt hook. The sharp hooks were used lift up small tissues while blunt hooks were used for raising blood vessels. Uvula Crushing Forceps are tools used to cut the uvula from our body. Uvula is a soft fleshy tissue that hangs on top of a soft palate in your throat. This will prevent hemorrhaging. Bone drills are still commonly used today. They are used to remove dead tissue in the brain and any unidentified foreign objects in the bone. The last tool was the bone lever. The bone lever was used to lever out teeth or position fractured