Food, Health and Illness; The Idea of the Balance of Humours in the Medical Science
The lecture’s main goal is to
describes the humoral system worked out by Galen. The system included
four main chymoi, i.e. bodily juices,
namely blood, phlegm, bile and black. Each of them was described in terms of four
primary element of the material world, archai,
of which they consisted, namely air, water, earth and fire, and therefore were
characterized by qualities that are immanent in the elements, and which were termed
stoicheia, namely humidity, dryness,
warmth and coldness. The lecture will present a characterization of the chymoi, describe their role in the
body, and present some results of their excess or deficiency, both in the whole
body as well as in its particular parts.
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