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| Tango01 | 05 Aug 2020 10:17 p.m. PST |
"In the second century, Origen wrote, "For those who are adorned with religion use physicians as servants of God, knowing that He himself gave medical knowledge to men, just as He himself assigned both herbs and other things to grow on the earth." The practice of medicine in the Middle Ages was rooted in the Greek tradition. Hippocrates, considered the "father of Medicine," described the body as made up of four humors—yellow bile, phlegm, black bile, and blood—and controlled by the four elements—fire, water, earth, and air. The body could be purged of excess by bleeding, cupping, and leeching—medical practices that continued throughout the Middle Ages…"
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