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Erasistratus of Chios
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Erasistratus of Chios
(
c.
304
bc
–259
bc
) Greek anatomist and physician Erasistratus, who was born on the Greek island of Chios, came from a distinctly medical background and studied in Athens, Cos, and Alexandria. Following Herophilus he became the leading figure in the Alexandrian School of Anatomy.
It is possible with Erasistratus, unlike his contemporaries, to make out at least the outline of his physiological system. Every organ and part of the body was served by a ‘three-fold network’ of vein, artery, and nerve. Indeed he believed the body tissues were a plaiting of ...
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Instruments of intervention in early American medicine.(Cover Story)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...practice of orthodox medicine in early America stemmed from the humoral theory of the body, which originated in ancient Greece. It was...century some practitioners of orthodox medicine had taken the humoral theory to a new extreme in what was known as heroic medicine. Named...
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The Hot and the Cold: Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...foods when suffering from a fever. Nevertheless, ethnographic research in Mexico has revealed many inconsistencies in the humoral theory, which Chevalier and Sanchez Bain seek to explain through cycles of heliotropic equilibrium (22). They propose three fundamental...
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Transferts culturels et metissages Amerique / Europe, XVI-XX siecle / Cultural Transfer, America and Europe: 500 Years of Interculturation.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
; ...particularly interesting case, on account of its rapidity. Von Gernet suggests that this transfer was facilitated by the humoral theory of the macrocosm, which was the central medical paradigm in Europe at the time of contact. Smoking came to be valued because...
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The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies
; ...fascinated. The Ethiops, whether collectively or in the guises of Prester John and Caspar, one of the magi, were admired. Also, humoral theory had been applied not just to the bodies of individuals but to entire races. Physical and cultural characteristics were traced...
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Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies
; ...materialist enquiry remains unclear. Chapter 5, on 'hair', reconfigures the boundary between sexuality and gender. Fisher invokes humoral theory to support the claim that 'hair length is a sexual characteristic rather than a gendered one' (p. 132), but that in the...
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A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America. .(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History
; ...junior scholars approach their subject from diverse disciplinary vantage points. In an excellent essay which elucidates humoral theory, Separatist theology, and European psychology with equal finesse, religious studies scholar Martha L. Finch describes the...
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(book reviews)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History
; ...inadequacy of traditional medical and scientific doctrines - specifically, pace Laqueur, the one body model of sexuality and humoral theory - that had explained and justified patriarchal institutions and practices since ancient times. (pp. 401-2) Men resolved...
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A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels and Systems of Thought.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History
; ...murder novels. To take one example among thousands offered in the book, a chapter on sexuality contrasts Balzac's reliance on humoral theory in the 1835 Old Goriot with Aldus Huxley's emphasis on the potency of hormones in the 1932 Brave New World. Here, as throughout...
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Medieval Embryology in the Vernacular: The Case of 'De spermate'.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...inevitably, somewhat sketchy. A discussion of the origin of human dissection (p. 9) omits any reference to Herophilus and Erasistratus in third-century BC Alexandria; when these two figures are mentioned, on pages 29 and 37, no reference is made to Heinrich...
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