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Also known as humoralism, humoral theory, humorism, humours

thumb|16th-century German illustration of the four humors: Flegmat (phlegm), Sanguin (blood), Coleric (yellow bile) and Melanc (black bile), divided between the male and female sexes Humorism, the humoral theory, or humoralism, was a system of medicine detailing a supposed makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Ancient Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.

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19 sections
Contents
  • Origin
  • Four humors
  • Blood
  • Yellow bile
  • Black bile
  • Phlegm
  • Humor production
  • Relation to jaundice
  • Unification with Empedocles's model
  • Influence and legacy
  • Islamic medicine
  • Perso-Arabic and Indian medicine
  • Western medicine
  • Modern use
  • Culture
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

thumb|16th-century German illustration of the four humors: Flegmat (phlegm), Sanguin (blood), Coleric (yellow bile) and Melanc (black bile), divided between the male and female sexes Humorism, the humoral theory, or humoralism, was a system of medicine detailing a supposed makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Ancient Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers.

Humorism began to fall out of favor in the 17th century and it was definitively disproved with the discovery of microbes.

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