The Four Humors
History
Aristotle
Body =
4 Main Components
Liquids (Humors):
Blood, Black Bile, Yellow Bile, Phlegm
Rule of Harmony
Physician's Job
Balance
Melancholy, Depressed,
Gluttonous, Lazy, Sentimental
Violent, Quick to Anger,
Vengeful, Choleric
Sluggish, Dull, Pale, Cowardly
Connections
Humoral immunity or humoral regulation means substances like hormones and antibodies that are circulated throughout the body
Blood dyscrasia refers to any blood disease or abnormality
Shakespearean Humors
His life was gentle, and the elements/ So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up/ And say to all the world, "This was a man!"
Mark Antony of Brutus, Julius Caesar
Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out
And makes himself an artificial night:
Black and portentous must this humour prove,
Unless good counsel may the cause remove.
Montague on Romeo, Romeo and Juliet
Your wisdom should show itself more richer tosignify this to his doctor; for, for me to put himto his purgation would perhaps plunge him into farmore choler.Hamlet, Hamlet