The roots of humoral medicine reach back to Hippocrates and the Greek doctrine of the four humors. Via Persian and Arab physicians, this medical system was elaborated upon, and passed on to Western Europe where it became "establishment" medicine until the rise of biomedicine in the 17th and 18th centuries. In Hippocrates' Latin American Legacy, Foster traces the routes whereby European humoral medicine reached the Americas after the arrival of Columbus.
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The only comprehensive ethnographic and historical study of Latin American humoral tradition....It will have an immediate audience among Latin American ethnologists and among medical historians, and a wider audience of all medical anthropologists and Latin Americanists. It will be the center of debate among scholars concerned with humoral traditions.
–Charles Leslie of Emeritus Professor in the Center for Science and Culture, University of Delaware, Newark
–Charles Leslie of Emeritus Professor in the Center for Science and Culture, University of Delaware, Newark
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If you are interested in anthropology or folklore or why you shouldn't go swimming right after eating this is an excellent academic study of the way in which ancient beliefs direct popular opinions today.
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In 1871 the American diplomat-proto-anthropologist George Squier wrote of the inhabitants of Lima, Peru: The Limenos had formerly many queer conceits and maxims about diet and medicine, which have greatly given way under foreign contact, but which still lurk among the masses. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
humoral values, classical humoral medicine, hot foetus, hot pottery kiln, contemporary humoral medicine, metaphoric cold, humoral beliefs, hot insults, humoral medical systems, calor encerrado, metaphoric heat, boldo tea, skin erruptions, cold insults, risen heat, classical humoral theory, heating experiences, humoral qualities, humoral principles, cooling experiences, humoral classifications, humoral quality, hot illness, humoral systems, empirical remedies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New World, Latin America, Ortiz de Montellano, Old World, United States, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Eugene Anderson, Spanish America, Sri Lanka, Holly Mathews, Puerto Ricans, Humoral Theon, New Spain, San Francisco Tecospa, Audrey Butt Colson, Chan Kom, Cruz-Badianus Manuscript, Its Three World Variants, Puerto Rico, South American, Isabel Kelly, Lake Pdtzcuaro, Lapez Austin New!
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In 1871 the American diplomat-proto-anthropologist George Squier wrote of the inhabitants of Lima, Peru: The Limenos had formerly many queer conceits and maxims about diet and medicine, which have greatly given way under foreign contact, but which still lurk among the masses. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
humoral values, classical humoral medicine, hot foetus, hot pottery kiln, contemporary humoral medicine, metaphoric cold, humoral beliefs, hot insults, humoral medical systems, calor encerrado, metaphoric heat, boldo tea, skin erruptions, cold insults, risen heat, classical humoral theory, heating experiences, humoral qualities, humoral principles, cooling experiences, humoral classifications, humoral quality, hot illness, humoral systems, empirical remedies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New World, Latin America, Ortiz de Montellano, Old World, United States, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Eugene Anderson, Spanish America, Sri Lanka, Holly Mathews, Puerto Ricans, Humoral Theon, New Spain, San Francisco Tecospa, Audrey Butt Colson, Chan Kom, Cruz-Badianus Manuscript, Its Three World Variants, Puerto Rico, South American, Isabel Kelly, Lake Pdtzcuaro, Lapez Austin New!
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- Canon of Medicine by Avicenna on page 13, page 24, and Back Matter
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- Food and Nutrition by William H. Sebrell Jr. in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- South America (Continents (Heinemann Paperback)) by Mary Virginia Fox on page 4, and page 185
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