Ancient Greek medicine

Ancient Greek medicine comprised healing practices and theories in Greek-speaking societies, from temple rites to clinical observation and explanations based on bodily fluids.

Hippocratic Corpus: A collection of ancient Greek medical writings associated with Hippocrates and his followers. These texts preserve influential clinical observations and theories attributed to Greek physicians.
Clinical observation: The systematic noticing and recording of a patient's signs, symptoms, and illness over time. Hippocratic case histories use recurring observations to describe disease and prognosis.
Hippocrates: A Greek physician traditionally regarded as a foundational figure in Western medicine. His name became attached to influential writings and ideals of medical conduct.
Galen: A Greek physician and medical writer of the Roman Empire whose works shaped medicine for centuries. Galen systematized and expanded Greek medical ideas, especially humoral physiology.
Humorism: A theory that health depends on the balance of bodily fluids, or humors. It became a major framework for explaining illness and treatment in Greek medicine.
Prognosis: A forecast of the likely course and outcome of a disease. Greek physicians treated predicting an illness's course as a central medical skill.
Cults of Asclepius: Religious communities and practices devoted to Asclepius, the Greek healing god. Their sanctuaries offered established forms of healing before and alongside physician-led care.
Hippocratic Oath: An ancient Greek medical oath setting out ethical commitments for physicians. It made professional conduct part of the lasting legacy associated with Hippocratic medicine.
Asclepius: The Greek god of medicine and healing, worshipped at sanctuaries across the ancient world. His cult represents the divine healing tradition that coexisted with medical observation.
Regimen (medicine): A planned pattern of diet, exercise, sleep, and other habits used to maintain or restore health. Adjusting daily habits was a prominent treatment within humoral medicine.

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