Article: Hippocrates' Latin American Legacy: Humoral Medicine in the New World.

Hot-cold classification as a dimension of humoral (folk) medicine has been a continuing topic of interest among medical anthropologists working in Spanish America. Early twentieth-century ethnographers were intrigued by the ways in which terms related domains of the body, health, nutrition and environment. They also were interested in what were 'indigenous' v. Hispanic aspects of Hot-Cold theory and practice. More recent ethnohistorians of medicine and philosophy have tried to trace the roots of Hot-Cold reasoning in contact-period Aztec medicine; while medical anthropologists have tried to understand how the system incorporates new information (illness ideas and materia ...

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