humors

• “Early Greek physicians believed all medicine could be based on an understanding of these fluids, which they called humors.”

  Simon & Schuster: Birdology

• “Because their diet was so healthful — Cárdenas thought chile and maize tortillas helped to cleanse and "dry out" the bad humors from the body — they rarely suffered from such maladies as "rheumatism, de ijada, urine or stomach [problems].”

  Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

• “The name humors me since they are naming it after an event that took place in a state that pretty strongly supports Obama and the Democrats ....”

  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg

• “It’s like arguing about which of the 4 humors is responsible for a cold”

  Department of Greenwashing: Ceci La Luna lambrusco | Dr Vino's wine blog

• “The human body, Hippocrates proposed, was composed of four cardinal fluids called humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Emperor of All Maladies

• “There were four of them, called humors, and a series of characteristics was assigned to each, but not one of them had all of its characteristics at once.”

  Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students

• “That was her reward of childless matrimony, as the appreciation of her humors was his.”

  The Readjustment

• “humors" -- blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile -- and that disease was caused by the undue accumulation of some one of these humors in some organ, which it was the business of the physician to get rid of by blood - letting, blistering, purging, or other means.”

  The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization

• “The Greeks, too, thought temperament was governed by substances in the body: not neurotransmitters, but such "humors" as the black bile that caused the "melancholic" disposition.”

  Newsweek: The Case Of Dr. Strangedrug

• “a number of humors, that is, oddities and affectations of various sorts, and played them off on one another, as Ben Jonson afterward did in his comedies of humor.”

  Brief History of English and American Literature

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