humoralistn.

1785 W. Perry Only Sure Guide (ed. 8) App. 153 The H in hew hewer human..humoural humoralist..sounds as if began with a y.

1793 W. Moorcroft tr. E. Valli Exper. Animal Electr. iv. 267 A work of this kind would be particularly useful, and give the last blow to the pernicious sect of humoralists.

1800 J. Burns Diss. Inflammation I. 210 There are no specific operations of the living system, no alterations even in the fluids, (which were to the humouralist what the nervous system ought to be to the true physiologist).

1864 W. T. Fox Skin Dis. 11 On the one hand the humoralist, on the other the neuropathist.

1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 371 The term ‘purifying the blood’..is sufficiently suggestive of their function as viewed from the pathological stand-point of the old humoralist.

1988 A. M. Silverstein Hist. Immunol. iii. 38 The humoralists claimed that only the soluble substances of the blood and other body fluids could immobilize and destroy invading pathogens.

1997 R. Porter Greatest Benefit to Mankind viii. 175 Humoralists argued that the pox produced an excess of phlegm; hence mercury, which provoked evacuant drooling, seemed the right intervention.