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Traditional Medicine Theory


Traditional Western Medicine Theory

The Art of Physick
An Overview and Introduction to
Traditional Western Medicine Theory

The Regimen of Health
An Introduction to the Regimen of Health
in Health and Sickness of Maimonides

Regimen Sanitatis Salernitatum
The Regimen of Health from the School of
Salerno, the first medical school in Europe




Foundations

The Four Elements
Times of the Day in the Various Systems
Digestion in the Humoral System
The Dialogue on Natural Heat


Humoral Medicine

Introduction to Humoral Medicine
The Four Humors
Humors in the Different Traditions

Humoral Manifestations of Common Diseases


Organs

Introduction to the Organs


Materia Medica

Hot or Cold? The Temperature of Medicines
Examples of Pharmacological effects of Traditional Medicine Classifications





Books on Medical Theory:

Galen, on the Natural Faculties

–seminal book of Western Medical Philosophy
Galen's Art of Physick (EEBO)
–a good overview of traditional diagnostic and humoral constitutions

Culpeper's School of Physick, London, 1678
–based on Galen's Theory; a good general overview of the Theory of Medicine
Thirteen Books Of Natural Philosophy, Danieal Sennert, 1665
–good overview of Natural Philosophy, much of which pertains to medicine
The idea of practical physick in twelve books; written in latin by John Johnston; englished by Nich. Culpeper, 1657
–another good overview of medical theory, translated into English by Culpeper

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