{"id":49,"date":"2019-09-30T15:48:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/myazdrill\/?p=49"},"modified":"2019-09-30T15:53:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:53:06","slug":"survey-design-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/myazdrill\/2019\/09\/30\/survey-design-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey #2: God and Gutenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Using the Four Elements to Cure Illness <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Living In modern times we take for granted the simplicity of\ngetting rid of a bothersome cold or a pesky cough, but back in the 1400\u2019s such\nthings were less of an annoyance and more so of a deadly threat.  A system was created around this time called the\nFour Humors.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The system was based off categories of four.  The first category being based on symptom were\nthe bodily humors.  Yellow Bile, black\nbile, phlegm and blood were the four symptoms. \nOnce your symptom had been determined, you were then matched up with a\nseason.  Yellow bile matched up to summer,\nblack bile matched up with autumn, Phlegm with winter, and blood with spring.  Now that seasons had been assigned, each\nsymptom was associated with an element.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earth to bile as too much earth made one melancholic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Air to blood as too much air made one sanguine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fire to yellow bile as too much fire made one choleric. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Water to phlegm as too much water made one phlegmatic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Or so it was believed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each element then held a certain quality relating back to the illness. Earths qualities were cold and dry, air\u2019s qualities were hot and moist, waters qualities cold and moist, and fire\u2019s qualities were hot and dry.  With the above information being assigned a physician then had what they thought to be the perfect recipe to cure the illness.  The physician would then prescribe according activities in order to imbalance the current humor.  For example, if you had a fever with yellow bile, your element being fire which is hot and dry, meant that you were to increase your amount of phlegm by taking cold baths.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This method of curing illness sounds quite silly and quite lacking of real science but it was in fact a huge advancement at the time as it wasn\u2019t based around the supernatural as it had been previously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Works Cited<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gill, N.S. \u201cThe Seasons and Elements of the Four Bodily Humors.\u201d ThoughtCo<\/em>, ThoughtCo, 29 July 2019, https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/four-humors-112072.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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