SC - Hemp recipes!

[Philip & Susan Troy]

LYN M PARKINSON wrote:
> 
> The reason you find so much of this in Platina, is that he was a
> physician.  He is talking of the humoral theory results of the food(s)
> and not, necessarily, about any actual physical observation of symptoms.
> When he does memtion a friend who reacts adversly to a particular food,
> it may be that that friend had a particular condition.  It would be great
> fun to have a mundane physician read Platina, and give us a list of
> diagnoses.

Yes, that would be fun. Platina may have been  familiar with
contemporary medical theory, but he wasn't a physician per se. He was
one of the Vatican's librarians, and would certainly have had plenty of
access to a wide spectrum of books.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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