HPS318H1 Lecture Notes - Xibalba, Five Ws
20 Feb 2013
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5 to 6 sentence of person and how to relate to another. Thucydies was to our knowledge the only direct witness of the plague of athens during 426. He was not a physician but a historian and as a result he did not focus his writing on healing he did include some pronicples of healing though. His goal examined how the plague can effect normal social norms. examples how people stopped participating in spcial rituals like funereal norms and the concern of how a disease effects a society. Disease profile hard to distinguish 430 to 427. Melancholic was both a physical and mental state and is sweet and biter . origninated by galen. Body was a microcosm of elements of the cosmos health by harmony. May have been link egyptian influence mummification and diseections. Mil and poli stronghold and founded by ptolmey. Major center for scholarship who showed up and why the greeks.
