humoralisticadj.
/ˌhjuːmərəˈlɪstɪk/, /ˌhjuːm(ə)rl̩ˈɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˌhjumərəˈlɪstɪk/ Now historical.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a humoralist or humoralism.
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humoralistic1850
1850 B. L. Hill Lect. Amer. Eclectic Syst. Surg. 33 The less mechanical and more chemical-humoralistic speculation invented a ‘spissitude’, or thickening of blood.
1853 Monthly Jrnl. Med. Sci. Mar. 253 The unfortunate tendency which this humoralistic view of the nature of so many diseases and the action of so many remedies has, to arrest the full development of therapeutics as a science.
1897 A. M. Brown Molière & Med. Assoc. 222 What was termed Hippocratic treatment presented little to alarm; it was the humouralistic measures—bleeding and purgation—carried to excess that were mischievous.
1937 Science 24 Sept. 278/2 Virchow..published his ‘Cellular Pathology’ in 1858, thus establishing the basis on which modern pathological thought and method rests, and incisively divorcing medicine from the complex humoralistic theories which had prevailed since the days of Hippocrates.
2012 S. Green et al. Clin. Trials Oncol. (ed. 3) i. 1 The basic philosophy of medicine from the time of Hippocrates to the seventeenth century was humoralistic; the accepted version of this philosophy was due to the Greek Galen (130 ad).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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