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Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 12:13:36 JST Evan Prodromou

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  Humorism
  
  Humorism, the humoral theory, or humoralism, was a system of medicine detailing a supposed makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Ancient Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers. Humorism began to fall out of favor in the 17th century and it was definitively disproved in the 1850s with the advent of germ theory, which was able to show that many diseases previously thought to be humoral were in fact caused by microbes. Origin The concept of "humors" (chemical systems regulating human behaviour) became more prominent from the writing of medical theorist Alcmaeon of Croton (c. 540–500 BC). His list of humors was longer and included fundamental elements described by Empedocles, such as water, earth, fire, air, etc. The concept of "humors" may have origins in Ancient Egyptian medicine...
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  Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 12:36:35 JST Evan Prodromou
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  @atoponce isn't it?
  
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  @evan This is some wild stuff! TIL.
  
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  Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 19:42:29 JST Evan Prodromou
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  @eurobubba ok. It's a big world; lots of other interesting ways to spend your time.
  
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  Michael Grant (eurobubba@mastodonczech.cz)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 19:42:31 JST Michael Grant
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  @evan I don’t get it.
  
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  Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 05:02:34 JST Evan Prodromou
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  @eurobubba ha!
  
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  @evan That was just my silly attempt at a joke, pretending to misunderstand the word ‘humor’.
  
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