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Hippocrates

FOUR HUMOURS                                                                                                                    

 The Greeks believed that the body was made up of four main components or Four Humours. These Four Humours needed to remain balanced in order for people to remain healthy. The Four Humours were liquids within the body- blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.

CLINICAL EXPLANTIONS:To study a patients syptoms (breathing and tempture) and ask how the illness developed.They would then make notes and use of their knowledge of similar casese to predict what will happen next.Once the predictions are shown to be accurate,diagonse the illness

TREATMENTS:                                                                                                                                 -Diet                                                                                                                                                -Exercise                                                                                                                                       - -Rest

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