[Sca-cooks] Humoral origins (was: Anything going on?)

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

As I wrote: "I'd surprised if you get any further back than works  
attributed to Hippocrates for the general theory, though I believe he's thought  to 
have had older models."
 
Jim  Chevallier
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In a message dated 9/6/2016 9:29:32 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
galefridus at optimum.net writes:

As it  turns out, the situation is more complex that I thought. WHS  
Jones' General Introduction in the Loeb Classical Library Hippocrates  I 
volume is loaded with information on this matter. "The Doctrine of  
Humours" section (§ 8, pp xlvi-li) discusses the origins of humoral  
theory at length, citing a number of Greek physicians and natural  
philosophers (Empedocles, Philistion, Anaximander, Alcmaeon, and  
others) who put forth some form of the theory, all of whom lived  50-200 
years before Hippocrates. Regrettably, we have very little of the  
original writings of these individuals -- almost all we know of them is  
through the writings of other classical Greek physicians and  
philosophers. But it's pretty clear that some form of humoral theory  
existed well before it was articulated in detail in the Hippocratic  
corpus.