Your asthma question: Â Why did Hippocrates believe evil spirits didn’t cause asthma?
My humble answer: Â I believe Hippocrates came from a medical family that believed there was a physiological cause to disease. Â His school of medicine was actually one of the first in history not to believe that diseases were caused by evil spirits. Â Likewise, he was among the first to try to find real remedies to diseases rather than simply chanting and praying. Â He believed diseases were the result of an imbalance of the four humors in the body: Â phlegm, yellow bile, black bile and blood. Â If he believed a disease condition was caused by too much blood, his cure was to bleed the victim. Â While his theory of diseases was incorrect, it was pretty much taught for the next 2,000 years. Â
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