Leonardo's Foot by Carol Ann Rinzler

Author:Carol Ann Rinzler [Rinzler, Carol Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781934137635
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press

The idea was scientifically wrong, but like most of Hippocrates’ theories, a giant step forward nonetheless. With “germs” a concept still centuries in the future, Hippocrates challenged the prevailing view of illness by proposing that a person’s health depended on conditions—humours—in the body rather than on divine intervention. As for Randolphus’ suggestion that an ache in the big toe was due to drops of something slipping from the blood into the joint, although primitive, the premise was a step in the right direction.

Leading first to the dinner table.

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