bodily humors
Ancient medical liquids
Bodily humors are the four fluids that ancient and medieval medicine believed determined health and temperament: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
Imbalance among these caused illness; balance meant wellness.
The theory persisted into the 19th century and survives in words like sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric, and melancholic—each named for a dominant humor.
- Hippocratic medicineAncient Greek healing system
- ancient medicineEarly medical practices
- yellow bileHumor causing irritability
- phlegmViscous airway secretion
- bloodBody's oxygen carrier
medieval medicine · emotional balance · lymph · mood regulation · black bile · bile duct · gastric juices · sweat · hot and cold · wet and dry · plasma · mucus · traditional Chinese medicine · sanguine · choleric · melancholic · temperament · Galen
- Humors and Passionspassions, choler, melancholia, phlegm, anger
- obsolete sciencephlogiston, aether, phlogiston theory, ether, caloric
- humoral medicineblack bile, yellow bile, phlegm, bile, Hippocratic corpus
- bodyflesh, skin, bones, muscle, bone
- ailmentsache, aches, ailment, cold, flu
bodily humorsgerm theory
Disease caused by microorganisms
evidence-based medicine · biomedicine · molecular biology · biochemistry · clinical medicine
bodily humorsneuroscience
Study of nervous systems
neurotransmitters · behavioral genetics · cognitive psychology · psychometrics · brain chemistry
bodily humorsexperimental method
Controlled testing for knowledge
diagnostic testing · clinical trials · evidence-based practice · scientific method
body, bodily, bodies, bodied, bodyless, embodied, embody, embodiment, humor