User talk:Nhess8/sandbox

Editing Plan

The page I am editing is Ancient Greek Medicine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_medicine).

Initially this page lacked any mention of Pre-Hippocratic Medicine, which is what I plan to add. I will begin by discussing the contributions of Homer in the field of medicine and how his epics act as the medical texts of the era. Then I will move into Homer's pushing of Ancient Greek society into Humanism and how this contributed to the medical field. Then, more specifically I will discuss the treatment of disease, injury and trauma, anatomical knowledge, and surgery as they are described in Homer's texts. I also will be moving the section titled Asclepieia, which is already present on the page, up as a subheading of Pre-Hippocratic medicine as that is a better fit for it than its current location on the page.

Nhess8 (talk) 18:34, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

I really like your idea of creating a section for Pre-Hippocratic medicine because the original article definitely is lacking in that area. Your information for your sections "Injury and Trauma in the Pre-Hippocratic Era" and "Anatomy and Surgery in the Pre-Hippocratic Era" all seems to be based on the Iliad, so I think it might be good to place this under a category all together, along with the information from your section "Disease in the Iliad". I just think that since all of this information is coming from one source that it might be best to indicate that by grouping it all together. If you wanted to keep these categories separate, you could find more information in each area from different sources? Other than that it's really great and well written!!

I would also just make sure you get citations in there for the new sections you added. Also, I'm not sure if this is your plan already, but I think you should have Pre-Hippocratic Medicine as a main heading and the rest as subheadings.

Gguzman914 (talk) 19:38, 20 November 2015 (UTC)