Apoflegmatisme

De la Viquipèdia, l'enciclopèdia lliure

Els apoflegmatismes, en la medicina premoderna, eren medicaments mastegats per allunyar la flegma i els humors del cap i el cervell. Aquests tractaments van ser anomenats apoflegmàtics. D'aquesta mena, el tabac es considerava excel·lent, excepte pel dany que fa a les dents. Es deia que Sage tenia gairebé les mateixes virtuts sense els mateixos defectes.[1]

Etimologia[modifica]

La paraula prové del grec ἀπὸ i φλέγμα ("inflamació, calor") .

Referències[modifica]

  1. Howard. . ALEX. HOGG, AT THE KING'S ARMS, No. 16, 1790, p. 143 (THE NEW ROYAL CYCLOPAEDIA; OR, MODERN UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF Arts and Sciences: ON ENTIRE NEW AND APPROVED PLAN, AND INCLUDING ALL THE Modern Discoveries and Latest Improvements on the Various Subject. CONTAINING A NEW, FULL ... DIGEST AND DISPLAY OF THE WHOLE Theory and Practice of the Liberal and Mechanical Arts, AND ALL THE VARIOUS RESPECTIVE SCIENCES, HUMAN AND DIVINE. Alphabetically Arranged, and Digested in the Most Complete, Regular, and Systematical Manner. Together with Full, Clear, and Satisfactory EXPLANATIONS of ALL THE VARIOUS DETACHED PARTS OF KNOWLEDGE, ACCORDING TO THE BEST AND MOST RESPECTABLE AUTHORITIES. Comprizing a Regular and General Course of ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE, From the Very Earliest Ages of the World, Down to the Present Time. Including All the Latest DISCOVERIES and IMPROVEMENTS in the Various Branches of the ARTS and SCIENCES, PARTICULARLY Acoustics ... Zoology, &c. &c. &c. The Whole Entirely Freed from the Many Errors ... of Other Writers on the Various Subject; And Forming a More METHODICAL, INTELLIGENT, and COMPLETE REPOSITORY of GENERAL and UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE, Than Any Other Cyclopaedia ... in the English Language. Illustrated with Near Two Hundred Very Large Superb COPPER-PLATES, Accurately Descriptive of All the Numerous and Various Important Subjects to which They Refer. IN THREE LARGE HANDOSME VOLUMES).