SC - RE: List Volume

[RANDALL DIAMOND]

At 01:01 AM 5/1/00 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 4/30/00 9:12:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>caleb at buffnet.net writes:
>
> > The only source I have found that objectively talks about the Humoral
> >  Theory in depth has been "How Greek Science Passed to the Arabs" by D. L.
> >  O'leary. Everything else I've ran across have only devolted a brief space
> >  to describing the theory.
> >
>
>I just stumbled across what I believ to be a reference to humoral theory in
>the Larousse Gastronomique:  "At the beginning of the 18th century, Louis
>Lemery said in his 'Treatise on Food': 'Artichokes suit elderly people at all
>times, and those of a phlegmatic and melancholy disposition'.
>
>Is this a hold over of the Middle Ages Humoral Theory, or just good "modern"
>medicine?  Ask Mr. Owl...
>
>Balthazar of Blackmoor


Like astrology, humoral theory is still with us today. Going through some 
of my old e-mail archives from the last time humoral theory sprung up, 
someone had mentioned a recent book detailing modern humor theory:

Hippocrates' Latin American Legacy: Humoral Medicine in the New World, Vol. 1
In-Stock: Ships within 24 hours.
George McClelland Foster / Hardcover / Gordon & Breach Publishing Group / 
January 1993
Our Price: $29.00

I pulled this up from Amazon.com





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