Humorism
= Humorism
A historical explanatory system in which health and <disease> depend on the mixture and balance of bodily fluids. The four-fluid scheme includes <blood>, <humoral phlegm>, yellow <bile> and <black bile>. These categories are not a modern analysis of <blood> composition. <On the Nature of Man in the Hippocratic Corpus>[Selection 1, four distinct fluids]{ref}