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Paracelsus, a Swiss physician, proposed that improper diet had a part to play in disease challenging the Galenic notion that related it to an imbalance of the humours.
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Paracelsus, a Swiss physician, proposed that improper diet had a part to play in disease challenging the Galenic notion that related it to an imbalance of the humours.