History of Science 2220 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Rete Mirabile, Spontaneous Remission, Order Of Saint Benedict

• School: Western University
• Department: History of Science
• Course: History of Science 2220
• Professor: Lawrence Burns

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Failure to keep the oath entails bad reputation (and therefore no career/livelihood: avoid stigma of harm/illness and death. Spleen (black bile) - earth: melancholia is the greek translation for black bile, liver (yellow bile real bile) - fire, too much made one bilious/choleric (i. e. , aggressive) and bold. See ackerknecht, p. 53: brain (phlegm) - water. To be phlegmatic is to have a slow and calm temperament, or to be idle and foolish: heart (blood) - air, to be sanguine is to be cheerful, unruffled. A kind of physiological and holistic model of patient as a whole (ack, 62) Constitution and climate and geography have an impact on health (see epidemics) Plagues and disease: a mysterious plague hit athens in 430 bce, during the peloponnesian war (with sparta), documented by thucydides (thuc. , hist bk 2 ch vii). 1/4 or 1/3rd of athenians died in the epidemic; 3 waves (430 427/425 bce: contributed to athenian defeat in the war.