Their reputation was well deserved, for the study and practice of medicine ... to Hippocrates, writing in the fourth century B.C. The system of humors divides human fluids into four basic types ...

Across the Mediterranean – and a few millennia later – Greek physicians, including the “father of medicine” himself ... an excess of one of the four “humours” (phlegm, blood, yellow ...

Hippocratic medicine and the concept of balance Hippocrates ... He believed that disease arose from an imbalance of the four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. According to him, ...

This concept of humorism dates to 500 BC – however, Hippocrates (460-370 BC) is credited with the application of this theory to medicine. He believed that the four humors (blood, phlegm, yellow bile ...

Ancient medical practices are usually frowned upon by modern society. The history of medicine is tainted by bizarre ...

Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was first to use the word hysteria, from the Greek hysteron (uterus), for an ailment that ...

THE exact relationship of philosophy to the sciences has long been a much-debated subject, although there is today general agreement among the writers on ancient thought. The older generations of ...

drawing upon ancient Greek texts rediscovered by Arabic sources Medical understanding in the Middle Ages was underpinned by the idea of the "four humours". Dr Freeman, the library's curator of ...

The share of elective abortions in states without bans performed by online-only clinics rose four percentage points ... Last year, the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine argued before the Supreme ...

The UAB Department of Pathology recently funded travel awards to four trainees, Dr. Ashleigh Riegler ... McDonald Endowed Professor in Experimental Pathology, Division Director, Laboratory Medicine, ...