SC - Humors

[Christina Nevin]

	Rose asked
	If anybody can recommend other works on humoral (am I spelling that
right?) theory, I'd love to know.   

The best C.14 Italian (but based on an C.12th (?) Arabian original) source
is the "Tacuinum Sanitatis in Medicina".
There are a couple of translations - the one I have is "The Four Seasons of
the House of Cerruti" trans. Judith Spencer, (which shows all the pictures
fullscale) and there is also "The Medieval Health Handbook" which I think
has more of the translation (?).
It contains medical and humoral info about a multitude of foodstuffs, and
how/when/with what each should be eaten. There is also a very handy little
humoral food chart at the back of 4 Seasons, showing what grading of
warm/cool/moist/dry each item is. 

Al Servizio Vostro, e del Sogno
Lucrezia

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