Difference Between Hippocrates And Mental Illnesses

Difference Between Hippocrates And Mental Illnesses

In Ancient Greece, the mentally ill were cared for at home by family members. The government was not responsible for their care. Around 400 BC, Hippocrates attempted to separate superstitions and religion from medicine by confirming the belief that a deficiency in one of the four essential bodily fluids were responsible for physical and mental illnesses. The essential fluids were blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. Hippocrates classified mental illnesses into four categories: epilepsy, mania, melancholia, and brain fever. Like other physicians and philosophers of his time, he believed that there was no shame in having a mental illness or that mentally ill people should be responsible for their actions. Between the 11th and 15th centuries,

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