humorism

This theory was consistent with humorism, and led to such medical practices as bloodletting.

Unani, in particular, uses a form of humorism derived from the Greek system.

However, the medical theories of Hippocrates and his followers, especially humorism, had a lasting impact.

Contemporaneous medical science placed much weight on humorism, and for a short period tobacco became a panacea.

Although modern medical science has thoroughly discredited humorism, the theory dominated Western medical thinking for more than 2,000 years.

Eryximachus gives a definition that is medicinal, evoking the theory of humorism.

This discovery upset the theory of humorism.

Medicine as practised in the Roman empire, notably herbalism, humorism and bloodletting, is another theme.

During 1978, published a novella titled Mascarada, using humorism as a critic of Venezuelan society.

The Greeks coined terms for melancholy, hysteria and phobia and developed the humorism theory.

Because the book was still based on the ancient theory of humorism it provided some misinformation, in particular on the home remedies it prescribed.

On the Nature of Man shares the general Hippocratic interest in humorism and in such treatments as bloodletting.

Several of his books on humorism have been published in Italy by Marco Valerio Edizioni.

He was one of the first physicians to reject the erroneous theory of humorism, which dates back to Hippocrates and Galen.

He was knowledgeable about Greek and Arabic medicine, and followed the principles of humorism in the tradition of Galen.

Rhazes was one of first to question the Greek theory of humorism, which nevertheless remained influential in both medieval Western and medieval Islamic medicine.

In the pre-modern medical practice of humorism, cacochymy, or cacochymia, referred to a depraved habit of body, replete with ill humors, from various causes.

Four temperaments is a proto-psychological interpretation of the ancient medical concept of humorism and suggests that four bodily fluids affect human personality traits and behaviors.

Galen's understanding of anatomy and medicine was principally influenced by the then-current theory of humorism, as advanced by many ancient Greek physicians such as Hippocrates.

He's also the author of various works on humorism, several of which have been published by the press of Marco Valerio Edizioni of Torino.

Given medieval medicine's main theory of humorism, spices and herbs were indispensable to balance "humors" in food, a daily basis for good health at a time of recurrent pandemics.

Early modern European medical science was still to a great extent based on humorism, the idea that everything had a specific humoral nature that varied between hot and cold, dry and moist.

The bark is categorized in a traditional Chinese medicine counterpart of humorism, Wu Xing, as bitter and cold, affecting the kidney, urinary bladder and large intestine meridians.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this is derived from humorism and "the notion of the 'dropping' of a morbid material from the blood in and around the joints".

As well as having published numerous works, he has curated many exhibitions and shows, which have contributed in Italy to the development of new innovations in the field of humorism in the visual arts.