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Greek Medicine Vs Traditional Medicine

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This essay will be discussing the traditional approaches to medicine by Aggleton (1990), through Greek traditional medicine, by the definition of traditional medicine, holistic healing based on humours, belief in gods and treatment.
Traditional medicine may be defined as a way of using animal, plant and minerals; this includes spiritual therapies as medicine in the treatment either separately or as a combination to prevent diseases or maintain health (future-science).
Greek medicine –arguably the foundation of modern medicine- started with Hippocrates who is most respected in medical profession (reference needed).
Traditional Greek medicine was largely centred on a holistic system of healing. They achieved this by emphasising the four humours,
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