Galen: Works on Human Nature : Volume 1, Mixtures (de Temperamentis) by

Galen: Works on Human Nature : Volume 1, Mixtures (de Temperamentis)

Cambridge Galen Translations

with Philip J. Van Der Eijk (Translator), P. N. Singer (Translator)

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nonfiction classics health history philosophy psychology
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Mixtures is of central importance for Galen's views on the human body. It presents his influential typology of the human organism according to nine mixtures (or 'temperaments') of hot, cold, dry and wet. It also develops Galen's ideal of the 'well...

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