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HoP 127 - Peter E Pormann on Medicine in the Islamic World

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Is There a Disease of the Black Pile in the Arabic Tradition?

Miserable is a disease which has different manifestations and melancholy or the Greek word malayna hioli from which melancholy is derived actually means black pile. So some people are just malangcholi by character or by disposition but they have too much black pile to begin with. Some people acquire it and the disease manifests in different ways. There's a famous case of an astronomer who thought that some thought they were cocks you know like basically chicken and cried like chicken and flapped the wings like chicken so some became aggressive and what attacked people other became despondent. Many people died from this diseaseso it's a huge spectrum of symptoms which come under malangcholic which is

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