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The Four Humours
Kristin Pomeroy

2. The Choleric, the Sanguine, the Phlegmatic, and the Melancholic

3. The Four Humours
There must be a balance between the 4 elemental fluids and the state of health (including state of mind)
Blood
Yellow Bile
Phlegm
Black Bile
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4. The Four Humours
The 4 basic fluids were closely related to the 4 elements
Air
Fire
Water
Earth
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5. The Sanguine Blood Air Hot and moist Amorous, happy, and generous
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6. The Choleric Yellow bile Fire Hot and dry Violent and vengeful
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7. The Phlegmatic Phlegm Water Cold and Moist Dull, pale, and cowardly
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8. The Melancholic Black bile Earth Hot and dry
Gluttonous, lazy, and sentimental
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9. The Four Humours
The humours would give off vapors which would go to the brain
This affected the individual’s characteristics (physical, mental, and moral) which could then be understood as one of the 4 humours prevailing over the others
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10. Treatment Religious Secular Prayer Relics Shrines Diet Medication
Surgery
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11. Diet Good diet could ensure health
Food could either cause disease or prevent it
Effect on balance of humours
Prevention better than cure
Surgery used as a last resort, painful
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12. Medication Herbs, plants, animals, and minerals Cure by contraries
Cold medicine for hot disease
Bleeding
Helped relieve symptoms
Cupping
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