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Hippocrates, Galen & The Four Humours | The Colour Works
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The Four Humours
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The theory of the four humours (temperaments) is likely the oldest personality theory in the world. It can be traced back to the 4th century BC Greek physician Hippocrates.In the 2nd century AD, another Greek physician, named Galen, took this idea and made it into a personality theory.
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Four humours
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Fig. 339 – The four temperaments on a German calendarium, around 1480, as given in Guido Majno’s book ‘The Healing Hand: Man and Wound in the Ancient World’ (1991). The subtitles interrelate the temperaments with elements and character: (1) phlegmatic with water and subtility, (2) sanguinistic with air and pride, (3) melancholic with earth and depressiveness and (4) choleric with fire and adventure. In: HOES (1994).
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the four humours of the physician Galen and the four colours - we still use the term "melancholy" which was from the Greek word for "black bile" .:.
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The four humours. Diagram showing the relationship between the four humours, basic qualities of the body and its diseases, and nature and the seasons.
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The four temperments and humors
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Medieval urine wheel and the four humours. Labelled in Latin, this 15th century diagram shows possible colours of urine (flasks on outer edge of circle) to help doctors diagnose urine-related diseases.
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“The Four Temperaments or Four Humours can be traced back reliably to Ancient Greek medicine and philosophy, notably in the work of Hippocrates (c.460-377/359BC – the ‘Father of M…
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Medieval Europeans had a worldview much more literal than ours. They saw the universe as more integrated than our own. This connectedness included the four humors and the physical world around us.
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The four Roman Mysteries characters like the four humours!
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Shyness and introversion are not the same thing.
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Series of engravings of the Four Temperaments after Georg Pencz, 1530 - 1562
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Bloodletting, a common practice in the 18th century, particularly in case of fever. It was tied to the medical theory of the four humours.
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