Galen's Personality Theory
Channel: Thiyagu Suriya
Date: 2021-01-15

Galen used temperaments to refer to bodily dispositions. Bodily dispositions determined a person's susceptibility to certain diseases. The overall concept of Galen's theory is that each type is believed due to the surplus of one of the bodily fluids in which is in agreement to their character. This theory is used in accomplice to medical theories. If your humors and temperaments are in balance it means that you are healthy. Galen believed that if there was an excess or deficit of one of the humors it is cause by disease and disability. Deficits can be cause by vapors that were taken in by the body.