The first of
the ancient episodes is entitled "The Hippocratic Corpus." This
episode contains information on Hippocrates and the style used for
corpus which he is attributed with.The Hippocratic Method
(This is the practice of containing knowledge of medical
advancement in detailed writing to pass along. Essentially it is
a textbook.)
My web project
is based
on the Hippocratic method and the practice of it and the influence it
has had on the history of medicine.
I am interested
in the
relationship of the symptoms and the resulting treatment for those
symptoms. I know of Hippocrates, but I
have also read that he likely was not the sole writer of the
Hippocratic
corpus. I have learned a few things
about the subject in the past weeks, but I chose the topic because I
wanted to
understand much more thoroughly what I did not previously understand.
The point of doing this project, in my eyes, is to
fully understand an aspect of the course and then to pass along that
understanding to the people who read the pages I create, similar
to how I will learn from their pages. I feel that this project
has been a great success in its intended purpouse.
My goal was to
examine how the Hippocratic Corpus changed
the practice of treating symptoms and also how the ability to diagnose
symptoms
progressed through medicine. I wanted to
learn how physicians and pharmacists work together to keep the body in
harmony.
I believe
others are
interested in this subject because they are interested in the history
of the
treatment they receive. Also many people
go to the physician and never understand that there is a progression
that got
them to the level of expertise that they are at today. I feel I
have helped people to understand much of the beginnings of that
progression.
Finally people seemed to be interested in the
information simply because I made the episodes entertaining and
attention grabbing. I hope that the way my
material has been presented will intrigue others who read the episodes..
For the ancient
time period I have two episodes that I have produced.
The first of
the ancient episodes is entitled "The Hippocratic Corpus." This
episode contains information on Hippocrates and the style used for
corpus which he is attributed with.
The second
episode I have written is over Galen and his methods. The episode
contains information on the errors Galen passed on and why they were
not his fault.
The first of the
medieval episodes is focused on the four humors. The episode
explains what the humors are and why they were important.
The final episode
is about Avicenna. Avicenna was an important part of the
hippocratic tradition because he wrote many books on the subject of
medicine.I wrote this
entire project in a journal style. The premise of the project was
that I went back in time with a time machine I invented. I then
used the episodes as entries into the journal. The study of the
understanding of medicine was the stream that wound its way through the
project. Though I have to say the story style was definately what
held the episodes together.
