CLA219H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Flamen Dialis, Pontifex Maximus, Pater Familias
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Sworn by modern doctors to adhere to certain principles. Midterm 2 prep: widely believed to have been either written by hippocrates, the father of western medicine, or one of his students. Something that is propagated right into the 19th century hysteria them. She gets visions or feelings that compel her to seek death: virgins are exceptional hysterical, virgins should cohabit as soon as possible with a man. Sterile married women likely to suffer from hysteria. Part of domesticating the female melancholic: having dry and cold humors leading to a melancholy disposition phlegmatic, having wet and cold humors leading to a lethargic disposition sanguine, wetness and hotness relating to an optimistic disposition wandering womb. It needs moisture and if it dries it moves to other parts of the body. If she doesn"t have enough sex it gets dry and become angry and miserable without sex. It moves to other parts that are wetter and presses against organs whereby making her insane.
