HPS318H1 Lecture Notes - Bloodletting, Maimonides, Multilingualism
20 Feb 2013
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Not just report what author is telling us, engage in authors argument some questions meant to help you for it. Views that we might not find agreeable or persuasive. Sources and evidence can also be positive and with reservations. Historian wrote about the plague of athens and gives us an account the reflects medical views, his concern plague challgnes social and moral bonds like funereal rights. Greek doctor in alexandria one of first to engage in human anatomical dissections and compares to animal anatomy in alexandria see anatomy carried out. Say environment in alexandria, saw the body as a living mechanism. Different from before te humoral nature very fluid texture of the body. By looking at body the body is a living mechanism and dieases is not lakc of balance of humors but mechanical disruption. Physical and mental state black pile is dominate meleancholic more mental state later development tmepermant predominance of black bile.
