Ancient Greek physicians believed the full moon could unbalance the mind, linking lunar cycles to madness and mental ...

Events ; History(ies) of medicine: the treasures of the Martin Bodmer Library invite you to delve into human thought. From May 20 to September 30, panels featuring some of the Mar ...

drawing upon ancient Greek texts rediscovered by Arabic sources Medical understanding in the Middle Ages was underpinned by the idea of the "four humours". Dr Freeman, the library's curator of ...

The four temperaments originated in ancient Greek philosophy and are credited ... temperaments in relation to the bodily humors were abandoned around 1850 and are no longer accepted in the canon of ...

Cito tuto jucunde, a phrase that can be translated as “Quickly, safely, and pleasantly,” was the motto of one of the fathers of medicine—a Greek who refuted the Hippocratic doctrine of the four humors ...

The term “Unani" comes from the Arabic word Yunani, which means Greek, pointing towards its origin. The system of Unani medicine is built on the concept of four humours, phlegm, blood, yellow bile, ...

Words like those I may take up in a future column, but in this one I want to talk about “humor” in the original sense, that is, any of the four humors of ancient medicine and the ... (1) Blood (Greek ...

The museum’s artifacts, from the past 150 years, highlight developments in medicine ... the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates’ explanation of health, called the “four humors,” consisting ...

This idea dates back to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle ... The balance of a body’s four humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile) also influenced masculinity and femininity ...

As an effective method of getting medicine in the body and ... He also revised Greek definitions of the roles of the four bodily humors, suggesting that they were just one of the ways that you ...