Assertion: heroic medicine | /r/CapableOf | seek to treat disease symptoms
Facets:
value: by correcting that imbalance
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Heroic medicine was based on the belief that disease is caused by imbalance among the four "humours" (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile) and sought to treat disease symptoms by correcting that imbalance, using "harsh and abusive" methods to induce symptoms seen as opposite to those of diseases  rather than treating their underlying causes: disease was caused by an excess of one humour and thus would be treated with its "opposite".