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Medicine

On Temperaments

Year 175 CE
Tradition Late Antiquity
Era Imperial
Language Greek
“Ὅτι μὲν ἐκ θερμοῦ καὶ ψυχροῦ καὶ ξηροῦ καὶ ὑγροῦ τὰ τῶν ζῴων σώματα κέκραται…”

Hot, cold, dry and wet: how they mix in living bodies, and what the best-tempered body is, in three books.