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From: "D. Spencer Hines" <>
Subject: Medieval Medicine
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 08:43:25 -1000


Wally Jansen wrote:

>>This, and the remainder of your emotional tirade, was deleted after a cursory
reading. The four "humours" >definitely appear to be unbalanced again. [DSH]
>
> A tacky and oft repeated remark, and with a whiff of sexism.
>
> You're just disgusting Hines.
>
> -Wally

--
"I dunno, it might be a male thing, and I do detect a distinct whiff of
a testosterone dump."
[Vickie (Elam) White, 28 February 1997] [Referring to DSH]

Your "sexism" detector seems to be badly tuned and out of whack.

In Medieval Medicine, the four humours---phlegm, black bile, yellow bile
and blood---were not unique to the female of the species homo sapiens.

"Testosterone Dumps" occur only in the male of the species homo sapiens.
So, Vickie (Elam) White's tawdry [from Saint Audrey (Saint Etheldreda)
( -679) "Queen of Northumbria"] remark is decidedly sexist, while mine
is not. Males too can have an "imbalalace of the humours."---Methinks
thou dost have one raging now.

So, you stand corrected. You're Welcome.

Since you obviously need to do some remedial reading on Medieval
Medicine before you pop off on this subject again, here is an excellent,
classic and well-respected source, gratis:

J. Ilberg, "Aus Galens Praxis," Neue Jahrbucher fur das Klassische
Alterum, Geschichte und deutsche Litteratur und fur Padagogik 15:276-312
(1905).

This is perhaps the best treatment of the medical theories of Galen
[129-c.199]---who built on the medical foundations laid down by
Hippocrates. He was not only a physician---but a great philosopher. His
Theory of Medicine was the prevailing orthodoxy or "conventional wisdom"
in the Medieval Period. In 157, in Pergamum, Galen was chief physician
for the gladiators. Therefore, he was quite experienced in sports
medicine as well.

You do read German, don't you?
--

D. Spencer Hines---"There is a passion for hunting something deeply
implanted in the human breast." Charles Dickens (1812-1870) "Oliver
Twist" (1837-1838) Chapter 10

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