Ancient Greek physicians, including Hippocrates, challenged myths about epilepsy, shifting from divine to medical explanations.

Ever since 1906, lost treatises by Galen have been recovered and edited—in Arabic versions. "On Medical Experience ... work in the fields of Arabic and Greek science and philosophy account ...

Galen, a Greek physician, is born. He develops the theory of the four "humors": blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. Good health is thought to result from a balance of the humors ...

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