‘folk’ medicine. The ‘logics’ of medicine changed from herbs and potions to humours, bile, and Aristotle-Christian theology. These new methods were less effective, so the existence of the ‘old’ medicines threatened the new medical and church doctrine. The rise in capitalism was threatened...
The 100 folds in a chef’s hat are supposed to represent the 100 ways to cook an egg. We came up with a list of about 10 then gave up. We reckon a chef made that up during a quiet lunchtime. Some historians say that the higher a chef's hat – or toque – is, the more exper...
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(new, half-moon waxing, full, half-moon waning). TheFour Noble Truthsepitomize Buddhism. To the Pythagoreans 4 was the source of the tetractys 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10, the mostperfect number. Inmedievaltimes there were thought to be fourhumours (phlegm, blood, choler, and black bile—...
Avicenna, Muslim physician, the most famous and influential of the philosopher-scientists of the medieval Islamic world. He was particularly noted for his contributions in the fields of Aristotelian philosophy and medicine. Learn more about Avicenna’s l
Building on earlier Hippocraticconceptions, Galen believed that human health requires anequilibriumbetween the four main bodily fluids, orhumours—blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. Each of the humours is built up from the four elements and displays two of the four primary qualities: hot...
The ancient Greeks also introduced the notion that illness resulted from an imbalance between the four humours of the body: blood, phlegm, yellowbile, and black bile. They emphasized the value of observation, including bodily signs and excretions. However, the focus was more on predicting the ...
Avicenna, Muslim physician, the most famous and influential of the philosopher-scientists of the medieval Islamic world. He was particularly noted for his contributions in the fields of Aristotelian philosophy and medicine. Learn more about Avicenna’s l
The first book contains four treatises, the first of which examines the four elements (earth, air, fire, and water) in light of Greek physician Galen of Pergamum’s four humours (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile). The first treatise also includes anatomy. The second treatise ...
pain was thought to arise from an imbalance between the two complementary forces of life,yin and yang. Ancient Greek physicianHippocratesbelieved that pain is associated with too much or too little of one of the fourhumours(blood, phlegm, yellow bile, or black bile). Muslim physicianAvicennabeli...