Humoral theory | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-02-18

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00:01:58 1 Four humors
00:04:42 1.1 Blood
00:05:01 1.2 Yellow bile
00:05:20 1.3 Black bile
00:05:48 1.4 Phlegm
00:06:41 2 History
00:07:42 2.1 Origins
00:08:52 2.2 Greek medicine
00:12:09 2.3 Islamic medicine
00:12:38 3 Influence and legacy
00:12:48 3.1 Medicine
00:15:54 3.2 Culture
00:17:30 4 See also



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Humorism, or humoralism, was a system of medicine detailing the makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by  Ancient Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers, positing that an excess or deficiency of any of four distinct bodily fluids in a person—known as humors or humours—directly influences their temperament and health. The Humorism theory and practice is not based upon scientific knowledge and is considered a pseudoscience.The four humors of Hippocratic medicine are black bile (Greek: μέλαινα χολή, melaina chole),  yellow bile (Greek: ξανθη χολή, xanthe chole), phlegm (Greek: φλέγμα, phlegma), and blood (Greek: αἷμα, ema), and each corresponds to one of the traditional four temperaments. A humor is also referred to as a cambium (pl. cambia or cambiums). Based on Hippocratic medicine, it was believed that the four humors were to be in balanced proportions with regard to amount and strength of each humor for a body to be healthy.The humoralist system of medicine was highly individualistic, for all patients were said to have their own unique humoral composition. Moreover, it resembled a holistic approach to medicine as the link between mental and physical processes were emphasized by this framework. From Hippocrates onward, the humoral theory was adopted by Greek, Roman and Islamic physicians, and dominated the view of the human body among European physicians until at least 1543 when it was first seriously challenged by Andreas Vesalius. Its place was cast into the underside of science in 1628 by the findings of William Harvey, and it was definitively demolished in 1858. The concept has not been used in medicine since then.