Book ID: CBB164683218

Galen's Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation (2018)

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Stewart, Keith (Author)


Brill


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 188
Language: English

In Galen's Theory of Black Bile: Hippocratic Tradition, Manipulation, Innovation Keith Stewart investigates Galen's writing on black bile to explain health and disease and shows that Galen sometimes presented this humour as three substances with different properties that can either be harmful or beneficial to the body. Keith Stewart analyses the most important treatises for Galen's physical description and characteristion of black bile and challenges certain views on the development of this humour, such as the importance of the content of the Hippocratic On the Nature of Man. This analysis allows us to understand how and why Galen defines and uses black bile in different ways for his arguments that cannot always be reconciled with the content of his sources.

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Authors & Contributors
Roselli, Amneris
Iorio, Silvia
Reggiani, Nicola
Orelli Barnaba, Giovanni Pietro
Boudon-Millot, Véronique
Ecca, Giulia
Concepts
Hippocratic medicine
Medicine
Humoralism
Disease and diseases
Manuscripts
Therapeutics
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
4th century
18th century
17th century
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Italy
Mediterranean region
Byzantium
Switzerland
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