Subject: Re: SC - four humours/food

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> Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 23:11:37 -0400
> From: J C Ronsen <caleb at buffnet.net>
> Subject: Re: SC - four humours/food
> 
> 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

Also still alive and well in most of China (meaning perhaps 1/4 of the
globe), and at my mother-in-law's house. I have not known her to do any
bloodletting, although she occasionally gives me a look suggesting she
may be considering branching out.

Adamantius
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