Greg Jenner
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And I suppose the other thing to say is this is after the printing press, right?
We are post Gutenberg.
So we're getting the proliferation of written stuff.
Right.
You know, we're talking here about before the discovery of microorganisms, Ria.
You know, before your specialism even exists.
They haven't got microscopes just yet.
Well, OK.
Sure, they existed.
But the study didn't exist.
No.
So, you know, we're talking here about a time where the theory of medicine hasn't changed in over a thousand years.
Is that fair, Alana?
Yeah, we do.
And we still talk about melancholic and stuff, don't we?
So there are personality types associated to medical humoral conditions.
Just the royals.
All right.
So these are ancient Greek ideas, the humoral system, the four humours.
Galen was a Roman Greek and he was building on Hippocrates, who was a Greek.