Humors in Medieval Medicine
Title: Humors in Medieval Medicine
Category: /History
Details: Words: 669 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Humors in Medieval Medicine
Category: /History
Details: Words: 669 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
During the Medieval time period, few advances were made in the field of medicine and surgery. The belief in humors affecting ones health during the Middle Ages was responsible for the way health care was carried out.
Practitioners in Medieval Europe believed in the existence of four humors: sanguine, choler, phlegm, and melancholy. The physicians thought that illness was caused, primarily, by an imbalance of the humors (Wallace).
Each of the four humors was given
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