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Disease instead was a holistic phenomenon of body equilibrium.
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There was, in a sense, only one disease.
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Now, what were the causes?
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The causes were said to be,
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what we might call in modern jargon, environmental insults;
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that Galen later on was to codify as the six non-naturals.
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The human body and constitution then had contact with the air,
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which might be corrupted, or "Miasmatic," as it was called later.
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Motion, or what we might call exercise,
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was the second--or its lack--non-natural.
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Sleep or wakefulness;
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excretion or retention of whatever was ingested;