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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Humors"”.
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Earthbound Humors: An Ecocritical Approach to Melancholy in As You Like It and Hamlet
… a person's nature was determined by his bodily humors, so the melancholy humor particularly lends itself to an ecocritical approach because it is inextricably linked to the natural world. Transcending genre, melancholy is not limited to the green world of comedy but rather appears in tragedy as …
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Studies in the Regulation of Gastric Acidity
… other hand the Hindus were of the opinion that humors, "Vata", "Pitta”, and "Kafa” resided in the body and directed its digestive processes, assisted by "Pachaka" (Fire of digestion) which separated the nourishing portions from the rejected ones. And so it was with the Chaldeans, Babylonians, …
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Studies in the Regulation of Gastric Acidity
… and superstition. Either demons or different humors existed in the body to direct the natural digestive processes. | The ideas of the ancients were not essentially different from those of the Greeks, whose philosophy exercised so profound an influence upon their medicine, or from the ideas of …
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Neuroscience and Galen: Body, Selfhood and the Materiality of Emotions on the Early Modern Stage
… of emotion as bodily material (the Galenic humors, being moved by passions and animal spirits, or brain neurons, transmitting and reabsorbing neurotransmitters) affects the extent to which we believe we can govern our emotional responses.</p>
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Staging Anger in Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy
… and different to the prevailing theory of the humors, which was widespread at the time of writing these early modern revenge tragedies. Through this theory, Seneca’s influence survives into Elizabethan revenge tragedy. I also argue that, the early modern understanding and decoding of this …
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Hippocratic Pain
… prove important theories, such as the theory of humors. Chapter Three argues that the strategies whereby the physician perceives the patient's pain rely on - or at least reveal a belief in - the objectivity of pain experience and expression. Nevertheless, the Hippocratic physician shaped the …
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Classical Masculinity in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
<p>This thesis uses the formula of classical masculinity to examine Marc Antony’s value as a Roman man in Shakespeare’s <em>Antony and Cleopatra</em>. Examining Antony’s history as a Roman hero, I distinguish how his reputation is destroyed through his romantic involvement with Cleopatra. …