Classical Studies 2900 Lecture : Classics Notes

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He uses an empiricist method (his own observations) for a process the empiricists don"t approve of (dissection). Galen physiology uses hippocratic idea of humours and qualities and aristotle"s idea of teleology, organs, and function. He says that man has reason and can learn skills. Man surpasses animals and has the ability to learn and create everything. He wrote a book about how each part of the body serves a certain purpose. (262) He talks about the hippocratic treatise about the 4 humours blood, yellow bile, phlegm, black bile. Galen takes this system and attributes his own ideas to hippocrates. Hippocrates is a hero to galen and he is always right. Galen takes the humours and finds one pair of qualities to which no humour is attributed to cold and dry. Galen uses logic to deduce that there must be black bile. Since there are four qualities, there must be four humours, and he attributes black bile to cold and dry.

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