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Humorism

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ancient Greek and Roman system of medicine involving four fluid types

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After alluding briefly to the opinions of those philosophers who held that the human body is formed from the four elements, that is to say, fire, air, water, and earth, the writer proceeds to state his own doctrines regarding the four humors, namely, blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile, and the diseases which are occasioned by the prevalence of one or other of them, according to the seasons of the year, and other…
Hippocrates, The genuine works of Hippocrates, Vol. 1
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They were forced after all to adopt a hopelessly inadequate physiological theory--that of the four humors--with the corresponding doctrine of health and disease as the proper and improper mixture of these fluids.
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
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Salts, sulphurs, and mercuries, acids and alkalis, are principles which can smooth things to those only who live about the furnace; but whose most common operations seem, to the bulk of mankind, as disjointed as any two events which the chemists would connect together by them. Those artists, however, naturally explained things to themselves by principles that were familiar to themselves.
Adam Smith, The Essays of Adam Smith
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