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Egyptian
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-Continued to believe in supernatrual causes due to religion.
-Theory of blocked Channels due to way of life as living near the river Nile. As when irrigation channels were blocked,crops would die so the same was applied to humans. |
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Ancient Greece
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-Still the theory of blocked channels used.
-Four Humours are introduced by Hippocrates. |
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Ancient Rome
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-Blocked channels still being used.
-Four Humours still in use. -Bad air 'miasma' idea introduced as people believed there was something bad in the air which made you ill. |
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Middle Ages
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-Four humours still heavily believed in and so was Galen's work.
-Religion was a big part of their way of life so supernatrual ideas were in place. -New idea wasn in place that Astronomy (stars and planets) caused illness. |
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Renaissance
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-Four Humours
-Supernatrual (God caused disease) -Astrology -Miasma introduced again. |
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1800's
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-Mainly Miasma again as this was the main belief of many during the time of the Great fire of London.
-Germ theory by Louis Pasteur answered all questions and proved Semmelweiss theory of washing hands. |
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1900's
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-Germ Theory
-Discovery of DNA by Crick and Watson allowed to cure genetic diseases. |