Like Hippocrates, Aristotle took to the humoral theory of disease, which also consisted of four primary qualities in life : hot, cold, wet and dry.
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In particular he draws many ideas from the philosophical writings of the Salernitan medical master Urso of Calabria, particularly " De commixtionibus elementorum " on humoral theory.
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Examples of such luxury goods would include Chinese silks, exotic herbs, coffee, cotton, iron, Indian humoral theories of health and the body that were prevalent throughout premodern Eurasia.
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Concepts of the body and of disease used in TCM have notions of a pre-scientific culture, similar to European humoral theory . & ndash; TCM is characterized as full of pseudoscience.
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Steven Novella has written " TCM is a pre-scientific superstitious view of biology and illness, similar to the humoral theory of Galen, or the notions of any pre-scientific culture.
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This physician would instead be found in a more scholarly / academic environment for this time period as the physicians of the 13th century were more invested in humoral theory than in herbs and plants.
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Although the theory of the four humors does appear in some Hippocratic texts, some Hippocratic writers only accepted the existence of two humors, while some even refrained from discussing the humoral theory at all.
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Praxagoras adopted a variation of the humoral theory, but instead of the four humors ( blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile ) that most physicians held, he insisted on eleven.
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In history of medicine, there has been some focus on the extent to which the manuscript might be incorporating aspects of European humoral theories of medicine or whether text is purely from the Nahua viewpoint.
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In general, Anthimus'approach is based on humoral theory ( referring for instance to " melancholic humours " ) though he only cites unnamed " authors " or " authorities " as his sources.
