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Diagnosis and the Illness Experience

“…By the 1700s, anatomical thinking disrupted the prevailing understanding of disease as a disequilibrium of humors. Dissection of diseased organs became part of medical sciences, and Morgagni emphasized using a scalpel to locate the “place where illness resided.” By contrast, humoralism connected disease to the realm of nature through the correspondence of the 4 humors with the 4 elements of earth, fire, water, and air; it was a process of looking outward.…”