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I don't want to say,
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however, that there were no challenges.
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It's extraordinary to reflect that humoralism,
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as a dominant medical philosophy,
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persists into the nineteenth century.
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But I don't want to think that it was unchallenged.
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We know there were demonic
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and religious views that ran alongside.
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But in addition,
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there were a series of scientific challenges that occurred
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in a number of major shocks to the system that
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slowly weakened its hold and gave rise to doubters,