Every entry in the journal tagged cosmology.
A Greek physician was told to study a town's winds and water before he treated anyone in it. Airs, Waters, Places is the oldest surviving argument that place shapes character, and the source of two thousand years of prejudice about it.
Four elements, four qualities, four humors, and four temperaments, all lined up so the body echoed the cosmos. The old and rather lovely idea of the person as a small world.
Ficino sang to a lyre in Florence in the 1480s and called it treatment, not recreation. In humoral medicine music was a substance with a quality, like a herb, and the four names outlived the theory in Nielsen and Hindemith.
For centuries, medicine and astrology were a single craft. The zodiac man ruled the body from Aries at the head to Pisces at the feet, and the twelve signs fell into the same four elements as the temperaments.
The old tradition read a whole life the way it read a year. Sanguine spring, choleric summer, melancholic autumn, phlegmatic winter, each humor taking its turn.