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&c. have been very improperly called nonnaturals, a term which is much more applicable to those substances which we are daily in the habit of receiving into the system, which excite it to undue actions, and which nature never intended we should receive; such as spirituous and fermented liquors, and high seasoned foods.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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Note 260: As Mary Milham has noted, these games represent Platina's discussion of movement and rest, the third of six "nonnaturals" discussed in the "Six Necessities of Life" of the Arabic tradition.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Sometime after Galen, these were often referred to as the six "nonnaturals," a term with mysterious origins and somewhat confusing connotations because they were indeed natural processes of the body.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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The tenets of good hygiene, or as the medical books called them, the nonnaturals, formed the bedrock of humoraliam, the medical framework introduced to Mexico by the Spanish Conquest, providing a means by which laypeople could conceptually gain access to medical ideas, especially because hygiene's concern was with everyday lifestyle and one's relationship to the environment.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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But other aspects of the nonnaturals occasionally are mentioned as well.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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As ideas about what caused disease began to change in the nineteenth century, and the nonnaturals became secondary, medicine lost it holistic quality.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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As a holistic approach to health, it was primarily concerned with how one's body was affected by the environment and one's own lifestyle, and each of the six nonnaturals were separate factors around which preventative and therapeutic strategies were organized.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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When these subjects have been discussed as fully as our time will allow, I shall examine, at considerable length, the manner in which the powers that support life, which have been improperly called by physiologists, the nonnaturals, act upon the body.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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7The six nonnaturals were not viewed solely as prophylaxis but as a framework on which to structure therapies as well.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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86Another one of the six nonnaturals, the body's evacuations and retentions, was concerned not only with the quantity, quality, and regularity of the removal of bodily wastes but also with sexual intercourse because this involved (especially for men) the loss of a bodily fluid.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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