Hard to swallow: the truth behind the health myths - The Telegraph 2nd July 2008

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Health has long been an area beset by superstition and spurious claims, and despite our medical advances, some common myths persist. In physicist Claudius Galen's day - around 130AD - illness was thought to be the excess of one of the four humours (yellow bile, black bile, phlegm and blood), which were treatable by bloodletting and purges.

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