Prehistoric views
• Evil spirits
Ø Cures: to force the demons from the vic=m’s body through:
Ø Trephina=on: stone instrument was used to cut a circular
sec=on of the skull to release the evil spirits
Ø Exorcism: coax the evil spirit out or to make the person’s
body uncomfortable in which to live
Early Greek-‐-‐460-‐377 BC
• Illnesses had internal physical causes (brain
pathology)
• Hippocrates
– Imbalance of 4 fluids (humors): yellow bile, black bile, blood &
phlegm
» Excess of yellow bileàmania
» Excess of black bileàmelancholia
» Treatment: fluids Could be balanced by a quiet life, a vegetable
diet, temperance (prac=ce of modera=on), exercise, celibacy,
bleeding
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