CLST 205- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 42 pages long!)

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There are many different types of humour in the world. Originally a medical term the worst thing you could wish on anyone was for their body to be mutilated after death. Whatever they would experience between the moment they died and the moment they were buried would be what would happen to them for all of eternity. Ancient physicians couldn"t perform autopsies to figure out cause of death because they didn"t want to mutilate their bodies. Advanced the theory that the human body is a microcosm of the universe. Since the universe was made up of fire, earth, water, and air, ancient physicians concluded the body was also made up of four elements thought that the body"s four elements must all be liquid. Chumoi in greek and humores in latin four humours are: phlegm (spit), bile (stomach acid), blood, black bile (melaina choler)

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