In pre-modern medicine, a catholicon was a soft electuary, a medicinal paste, so named because it was supposedly universal in its curative and preventive abilities, or a purger of all the body's humours. It represents the all-purpose remedies that pre-modern medical practice offered, reflecting the humoral theory that framed medicine before the modern era.
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In pre-modern medicine, catholicon was a soft electuary, so called as being supposedly universal in its curative and prophylactic abilities ; or a purger of all humours.
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