{"id":71703,"date":"2013-01-22T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=71703"},"modified":"2013-01-23T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T19:36:21","slug":"uconn-health-center-has-humors-for-few-more-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/01\/uconn-health-center-has-humors-for-few-more-days\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Health Center Has \u2018Humors\u2019 for Few More Days"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jennifer Miglus of the Hartford Medical Society Historical Library describes the Shakespeare exhibit on loan from the National Library of Medicine as \u201ca different way of looking at health.\u201d (Chris DeFrancesco\/UConn Health Center Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A traveling exhibit dedicated to English playwright William Shakespeare and the once-accepted theory of the four bodily humors is concluding its stay at the University of Connecticut Health Center.<\/p>\n

Each of the four humors\u2014choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, melancholic\u2014gets its own section in \u201cAnd there\u2019s the humor if it,\u201d developed and produced by the National Institutes of Health\u2019s National Library of Medicine<\/a> and the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, D.C. It\u2019s been on display in the Stowe Library<\/a> since Dec. 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe four humors represent the way doctors thought for thousands of years, and Shakespeare uses the humors in his plays,\u201d says Jenny Miglus of the Hartford Medical Society Historical Library<\/a>. \u201cThe humors were sort of embedded in everybody\u2019s thinking. Shakespeare doesn\u2019t call them out by name so often, but they\u2019re really evidenced in a lot of his characters and the traits that they display.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, University of Hartford humanities professor Humphrey Tonkin, a Shakespeare scholar, came to the UConn Health Center to discuss the exhibit. A crowd of about 50 heard examples of how Shakespeare used the ideas of the four humors in his plays. A video of Tonkin\u2019s talk is available at http:\/\/mediasite.uchc.edu\/mediasite41\/Play\/a7901a2b5a0c4190ae675512935c9b961d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The HMS Historical Library, which moved to the UConn Health Center in 2009, has the exhibit on loan through Jan. 26. The Hartford Medical Society\u2019s contribution to the display during its Health Center stay includes four books that go back to the 16th and 17th centuries. Shakespeare died in 1616.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhysicians felt that if there was an imbalance in your humors that you were unhealthy, and so a lot of the treatments\u2014the purging and bleeding\u2014were intended to put you back in balance,\u201d Miglus says.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s still time to check out the latest Hartford Medical Society Historical Library exhibit, on loan from the National Library of Medicine through Jan. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":71705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[57,2010],"class_list":["post-71703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 05:27:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71703"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71780,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71703\/revisions\/71780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/71705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71703"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=71703"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=71703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}