"In allen Instrumenten liegt Nahrung für die Seele."
Zur Bedeutung von Musik in der europäischen und arabischen Humoralmedizin
Curare 20,1.1997:43-47
##In all musical instruments there is nourishment for the soul - The role of music in European and Arabic humoral medicine
In the medieval European and Arabic medicine there were developed various concepts concerning the relation of affective and physical processes. In humoral medicine, music was seen to be one of the therapeutic methods to influence affective diseases in a close relationship to physical processes. The theoretical basis was prepared in the pre-Galenic and Galenic Greek sciences and was realized as a therapeutical method in medieval Arabic medicine; although the aetiology of 'melancholia' was mainly seen in a somatic imbalance, scientists then claimed the necessity of supporting the process of healing with affective stimuli, which were seen as a supporting method to re-establish this lost balance.##
Keywords: music therapy, humoral medicine, affective disorders, history of medicine, medieval medicine, Arabic medicine, medical anthropology, Greek medicine, Galenic medicine
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