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The theory of the four humours contends that our health is based on the balance or imbalance of fluids in the body, particularly blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. Yellow bile or choler is stomach fluid and black bile is gall secreted by the gall bladder. According to the theory, blood was hot and moist, phlegm cold and moist, choler hot and dry and black bile cold and dry. (How fluids can be "dry" is not explained very well)
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What is the theory of the humors?
There were supposedly four humors (black bile, yellow bile, blood and phlegm). When someone was sick, the four humors must have been out of balance and to heal, the four humors had to be balanced again.
Where can I get ten pages worth of information about the four humors?
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What physician believed the body was regulated by four fluids or humors?
Egyptian
What are the four humors and relationship to Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth's personality?
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What have Galen learned from doctors such as Hippocrates?
Galen learned from doctors such as Hippocrates about the four humors.
Who discovered the four humors?
Hippocrates, a greek doctor, in 460-377 BC
What is the Hippocrates humoral theory?
Hippocrates believed that the human body was controlled by four humors, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile and blood. Illnesses were caused by an imbalance of the humors.
What are the colors of humors?
In medieval medicine, the colors associated with the four humors were black bile (melancholic) - black, yellow bile (choleric) - yellow, blood (sanguine) - red, and phlegm (phlegmatic) - white. The balance of these humors was believed to affect a person's health and temperament.
What are examples of the four humors in movies?
fingers, toes and butt fingers, toes and butt
How did the four humors affect people?
The belief in the four humors—blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile—was thought to influence a person's physical and mental health. It was believed that imbalances in these humors could lead to illness or changes in personality. Treatment involved restoring balance through practices like bloodletting or changing diet and lifestyle.
What are the four elements that the Four Humors are connected to?
The four elements connected to the Four Humors are blood (connected to air), phlegm (water), yellow bile (fire), and black bile (earth). Each humor was thought to correspond to one of these elements, influencing an individual's health and personality.
Which of the four humors did people believe led to a melancholic personality?
The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates first popularize the theory that humors in the body contributed to the temperament of people. Melancholia was it was believed to be caused by an excess of black bile.
