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Unfortunately for all jokesters, tricksters, kidders and quipsters, laughs and jokes aren’t going to help your grades, at least not directly. What will instead is learning to correctly balance the four humors described in humoral theory by giants in medicine such as Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna, Averroes and Paracelsus just to name a few. The humoral theory, also known as Humorism, is a system of medicine that starting from the 1850s, with the advent of the ludicrous germ theory, has stayed woefully underappreciated and ignored. Its main belief is that dyscrasia, or the imbalance of humors, is the origin of all diseases; health instead is a direct result of eucrasia, the correct balance of humors. The other potenE t C e t e r a M a jo r a n a
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tial cause of disease according to Humorism is the so-called “corruption” of humors, potentially caused by many factors, among which dietary changes, environmental circumstances and the
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