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grbs-16983	Adams, William H.	An Early Conception of Inflammation in the Hippocratic Treatise Diseases I	2024	13	.pdf	application/pdf	4544	159	50	Instead, it is the fifth century B.C. Hippocratic treatise Nature of Man that provides a true humoral theory, one with characteristics inherent in man and comprising bile, phlegm, black bile, and blood. One of the supporting arguments for a humoral theory is observational in that the author of Nature of Man had seen a sequential change in vomitus as induced by a potent (toxic) medicine: the initial appearance of the vomitus he interpreted as being bile, followed by phlegm, then black bile, 1 W. H. S. Jones, Hippocrates IV (Cambridge [Mass.] 1931) xxvii.	cache/grbs-16983.pdf	txt/grbs-16983.txt
