Humoral

Much stress has been laid on the growth in humoral properties under these conditions. ❋ Unknown (1967)

Goronzy J, Weyand CM, Fathman CG (1986) Long-term humoral unresponsiveness in vivo, induced by treatment with monoclonal antibody against L3T4. ❋ Unknown (2009)

65Colonial curanderos differed radically from practitioners trained in humoral medicine in the ways they diagnosed the patient. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In so far, however, as the diseased function of the living body elements is, in the main, conditioned by the incorrect mixture of body fluids, I find the linguistic inconsistency of the use of the word humoral pathology no worse than if one speaks of pathological anatomy, although the subject matter of this discipline concerns cadaver anatomy and cannot really be attributed to cadavers. ❋ Unknown (1967)

Then came the great "humoral" or "vital fluid" theory of disease which ruled during the Middle Ages. ❋ Woods Hutchinson (1896)

The Immunology Laboratory of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia offers an extensive assortment of both cellular and humoral immunological procedures. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We have the antibody response, or the humoral immunity, which conceptually is the part of the body that could help prevent infection. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Immunology lab also offers a variety of assays for evaluation of the humoral immune system. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But why was this humoral factor only active in certain women with breast cancer? ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

The historian Arikha traces the humoral doctrine through the ages, exploring the intersection of folk wisdom and state-of-the-art science, and provocatively argues that the basic model continues to inform science in surprising ways. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But he was the first to try to bring it into line with the new idea of what a disease was: not an indirect and idiosyncratic result of a humoral imbalance or a punishment from the gods or a reaction to a poison, but the direct effect of a natural process, something gone wrong with the body. ❋ Gary Greenberg (2010)

For four years, students read the works of Hippocrates, Galen, and Avicenna on humoral theory, temperaments, the nature of man, fevers, and pulse. ❋ Unknown (2008)

After two millennia of stumbling around in the humoral darkness, doctors and drug companies were ready to displace the gods entirely from the clinic by taking direct aim at disease and killing it at its source. ❋ Gary Greenberg (2010)

Chapter 4 looks at these same concepts through a European worldview, specifically through the prism of humoral medicine on which Spanish notions of the body were based. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Both Spanish and Mesoamerican medicine used the Hot-Cold dichotomy in precontact and colonial times to diagnose and treat illnesses, so it is difficult to untangle the origins of these folk practices today. 7 As we will see in this study, however, the humoral medicine that Europeans brought to the New World provided a logical and simple framework on which both indigenous and popular Spanish curing practices could be hung. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Note 7: The debate about the origins of the Hot-Cold dichotomy has engaged anthropologists for at least two decades, but the principle advocates of each side seem to be Alfredo López Austin, who argues for an American origin, and Geoge Foster, who claims these practices are legacies of Spanish humoral medicine. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The latter commonly viewed illness as the result of natural causes: body functions gone awry because of humoral imbalance, for example, or dietary mistakes, the effects of climate, even old age. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The treatment caused the patient to sweat profusely, a desirable effect according to humoral theory, as this rid the body of its impurities. ❋ Unknown (2008)