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
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
