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Read the excerpt The Time Traveler's Guide to
Which sentence best shows the central idea of the
Elizabethan England from by Ian Mortimer.
excerpt?
Elizabethans do not understand infection and contagion
as we do. It is not that they are completely ignorant as to
"Elizabethans do not understand infection and
how illnesses spread physicians believe they know
contagion as we do."
perfectly well-it is rather that their understanding is very
"It is not that they are completely ignorant as to how
different from ours. The principal ideas underpinning
illnesses spread physicians believe they know
most Elizabethan medical thinking come from Galen,
perfectly well-it is rather that their understanding is
who lived in the second century A.D. Physicians will cite
very different from ours."
him as an unquestionable authority when they explain to
"The principal ideas underpinning most Elizabethan
you that your nealth depends on a balance of the four
medical thinking come from falen, who lived in the
humors: yellow bile or choler, black bile, phlegm, and
second century A.D."
blood. If there is too much choler in your body, you will
grow choleric; too much blood and you will be sanguine;
"If there is too much choler in your body, you will grow
too much phlegm and you will be phlegmatic; and too
choleric; too much blood and you will be sanguine; too
much black bile makes you melancholic. It is from these
much phlegm and you will be phlegmatic; and too
much black bile makes you melancholic."
imbalances that sickness arises.