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February 22, 2012

On humoral theory

I'm reading David Wootton's Bad Medicine at the moment. Last night, as I read about humoral theory, blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile, I wondered what Hippocrates or Galen would have made of the massive amounts of phlegm I have been producing. It consisted of  ten 200m fast runs with 100m recoveries, and a mile warm-up and cool-down

It represents a return to hard running.

 

Posted at 07:59 AM |

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  • χαιρέτε νικὠμεν
    χαιρέτε νικὠμεν means "Greetings, we've won" and are the words attributed by Plutarch and Lucian to the runner who brought news of victory at the battle of Marathon to the people of Athens. They both wrote some six hundred years after the battle and the story is unlikely. Herodotus, who was closer to events, writes of a runner called Pheidippides who ran from Athens to Sparta to ask for help before the battle, but says nothing of a run to tell the Athenians of the victory. "So, when Persia was dust, all cried, 'To Akropolis!
    Run, Pheidippides, one race more! the meed is thy due!
    "Athens is saved, thank Pan," go shout!' He flung down his shield
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    And Athens was stubble again, a field which a fire runs through,
    Till in he broke: 'Rejoice, we conquer!' Like wine through clay,
    Joy in his blood bursting his heart, he died--the bliss!"
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