Medicine

Greek Medicine

**Diseases were a serious problem for the Greeks. The Greeks found that scientific observation and logic were very interesting. They used scientific observation and logic to learn what caused diseases. Also, they used the logical system to see what you could do about diseases and to understand them. They had a lot of different types of curing diseases.**

 Humors **This form of logical system started with the Greeks and the idea of humors. Greek doctors thought that people were made out of humors. There were four humors in a persons body. These four humors were: phlegm, black bile, yellow bile, and blood. If you were sick, one of your humors were unbalanced. So, if all four of your humors were balanced, then you were healthy. For example, if doctors thought that you had too much blood in your body, then you would have a fever. Greek doctors would need to lower the amount of blood in your body. They would cut your arm until blood came out. If you had a fever, sometimes a doctor would put leeches on a patient's arm instead of cuting it open. Doctors did this so often, that they were sometimes called "leeches."**

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 * By McKenna **