28 April 2022

The Four Humours


16th century illustration of the four humours: Flegmat (phlegm), 
Sanguin (blood), Coleric (yellow bile) and Melanc (black bile)

A podcast from BBC Radio 4 on the four humours.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the four humours, a medical theory that saw the body as a concoction of four essential juices.

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