The Focused History and Physical - circa 100 BCE

Abstract

When modern physicians reflect on 'ancient medicine' or 'Greek medicine,' they typically think of Hippocrates and Galen. Few know of the raging, centuries-long intellectual debates among physicians about what exactly mattered in the treatment of illness, or about a group of physicians whose pattern-based, systematized approach to health and disease was a forerunner of how today's emergency medicine physicians evaluate and treat their patients.Methodist physicians (c. 100 BCE to 500 CE, active mostly in Rome but present throughout the Mediterranean world) were named after their "method" of healing.

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