How Would the Greek Physician Hippocrates Have Typically Dealt with Someone

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Multiple Choice

How would the Greek physician Hippocrates have typically dealt with someone suffering from mental illness?

• A) He would have focused on correcting the imbalance of bodily fluids, or humors.
• B) He would have made a hole in the patient's skull to release the pressure, a process known today as trephining.
• C) He would have had someone conduct the religious ritual known as an exorcism.
• D) He would have tried to understand the person's unconscious and the forces at work there.

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