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humoralism

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Hu´mor`al`ism
n.1.(Med.) The state or quality of being humoral.
2.(Med.) The doctrine that diseases proceed from the humors; humorism.
humoralism, humouralism
an obsolete physiological explanation of health, disease, and behavior, asserting that the relative proportions of four elemental bodily fluids or humors (blood-sanguinity, phlegm-sluggishness, black bile-melancholy, and yellow bile-choler) determined a person’s physical and mental constitution. — humoral, humoural, adj.
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Both took careful histories from the patient; both believed in humoralism and in equilibrium as a criterion of good health.
Health and Healing in Nineteenth-Century Germany by Ackerman, Evelyn Bernette / Journal of Social History
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