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The 15 pages that link to Humorism, each with the reason it gives.

• GalenRelated: Galen developed humoral medicine into a detailed account of temperament, health, and disease.

• Hippocratic CorpusRelated: Corpus writings helped establish humoral explanations that dominated medicine for centuries.

• Ancient Greek medicineBroader topic: Their supposed proportions and qualities shaped Greek accounts of health and disease.

• Humoral theoryBroader topic: These fluids were the theory’s basic ingredients; illness meant their imbalance.

• ParacelsusBroader topic: Paracelsus’s rejection of humoral explanations made these traditional substances a direct point of departure.

• Hippocratic medicineBroader topic: These fluids became a prominent framework for explaining bodily balance and illness.

• The Canon of MedicineRelated: The Canon uses humoral balance to explain bodily constitution, illness, and treatment.

• Four elementsBroader topic: Each humor was associated with elemental qualities in influential medical schemes.

• Miasma theoryRelated: Miasmatic explanations developed within a medical world still shaped by humoral ideas.

• Islamic medicineRelated: Many Islamic-era physicians used humoral balance to explain illness and guide treatment.

• Thomas SydenhamCompared with: His disease-centered observations challenged reliance on inherited humoral explanations.

• Unani medicineBroader topic: Their balance is central to Unani explanations of health and disease.

• Medicine in the medieval Islamic worldRelated: Many physicians interpreted symptoms and treatments through balances among the four humors.

• Abu Bakr al-RaziRelated: This framework shaped the medicine al-Razi inherited, even as he emphasized particular patient cases.

• Fire (classical element)Related: Yellow bile was associated with fire in later correspondences between body and elements.