humoral

Updated: July 27, 2025

Nine-tenths of our cells are still submarine organisms, and water is our greatest panacea. Then came the great "humoral" or "vital fluid" theory of disease which ruled during the Middle Ages.

Woods Hutchinson - Preventable Diseases

This will particularly be the case if the mouth and lips swell, and ulcers begin to appear on them, and the gums ulcerate, and a sanious and highly offensive discharge proceeds from the mouth. A singular, half-fetid smell arising from the dog, is the almost invariable precursor of death. When the disease first visited the continent, it was regarded as a humoral disease.

William Youatt - The Dog