Hippocrates and the four humors
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- Hippocrates and Four Humors
- Four Humors
- Yellow Bile, Summertime, Fire.
- Black Bile, Autumn, Earth.
- Blood, Springtime, Air
- Phlegm, Wintertime, Water.
- He believed that the body was made up of these humors and needed to be kept in balance.
- If one of these humors was not in balance, a person was ill, a doctor would get rid of it.
- E.g. blood perging.
- He insisted that all diseases had physical causes and rejected any magical or supernatural causes.
- Four Humors
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