Leading medical minds were once convinced that health and sickness resulted from the interplay of the four "humors": blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile, each associated with a certain ...
This week, on Halloween, I gave my second-year history students the entire history of psychiatry in 50 minutes. Well, it was actually 55 minutes—I went over, I admit. Starting in about 5000BC and ...
Galen, a Greek physician, is born. He develops the theory of the four "humors": blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. Good health is thought to result from a balance of the humors, and when one ...
How’s your blood and bile? Are you melancholic or phlegmatic? In early medicine, those questions were keys to the bodily humors — four substances linking physical illness to emotional states and ...
This week, on Halloween, I gave my second-year history students the entire history of psychiatry in 50 minutes. Well, it was actually 55 minutes—I went over, I admit. Starting in about 5000BC and ...