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Hippocratic Corpus

Greek tragedy encouraged the spread of false knowledge about the divine origin of human diseases. Greek gods were placed on a pedestal and seen as the healers as a result. To combat this view of diseases, Hippocratic physicians restricted their diagnoses to rational causes and rejected anthropomorphic intervention as the cause and solution of medical issues.

In addition to Greek poetry and tragedy, magicians, charlatans, and purifiers can also be considered responsible for the widespread of 'sacred' explanations. Doing this allowed them to step in and provide inefficacious remedies that could convince the gods to intervene and fix these sacred issues experienced by individuals.

This stomach pain was more common among athletes due to their intense diets comprised mainly of meat and wine.

Because of this, different people would require different concentrations and dilutions of wine for medicinal use.

After observation, men with larger bodies were able to consume more than men with smaller bodies and the same effects could be observed between them.

Women were noted to have a cold and wet nature which encouraged Hippocratic doctors to prescribe them undiluted wine. This differed from men, who typically were hotter by nature.

Hippocrates

It is mentioned in Suda that Hippocrates came from a family line of physicians. This bloodline of medicine lasted at least seven generations.

Women in Science

Born in Warsaw, Poland, Marie Curie, paved the way for scientists to study radioactive decay and discovered the elements radium and polonium.

Marie collaborated with her husband, Pierre Curie, a french physicist who contributed work to crystallography, magnetism, and radioactive decay. Curie was also known to be in collaboration with Henri Becquerel, another Nobel Prize winning physicist that determined a method of measuring radioactivity using the Becquerel.

Before then, McClintock obtained her PhD from Cornell University in 1927. Her discovery of transposition provided a greater understanding of mobile loci within chromosomes and the ability for genetics to be fluid.

McClintock was the fist American woman receive a Nobel Prize that was not shared by anyone else.

Medicine in Ancient Rome

Additional to the contributions by Archagathus of Sparta, many Greek doctors and scientists found themselves in Rome as prisoners of war. Aside from captivity, these Greek doctors and scientists also preferred practicing medicine in Rome due to the relatively better financial incentive that existed.

Hippocratic doctors encouraged the rejection of divine intervention and began to view the body more objectively. This monumental stray from anthropomorphic intervention placed a greater emphasis on physicians to find a physical remedy for those in need. One of the popular remedies observed in the Hippocratic Corpus is the use of red wine. Because many physicians believed that red wine paralleled blood, it could be used to provide health and comfort as a result of its "hot and dry" nature. While it was seen in a positive light, many Hippocratic physicians were also aware of the negative aspects of wine consumption along with the physical consequences of doing so.

One of the main providers of treatments were the paterfamilias. These 'head of household' men were responsible for providing their wives and children with proper foods when they were sick as well as many other responsibilities.