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anger
wrath
rage
ire
furor
choler
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| жовч |
bile
gall
choler
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The humoral theory, on the other hand, viewed disease as an imbalance among the body's four basic principles: blood (the sanguine, or wet-hot, humor), phlegm (sluggish, or wet-cold), choler (dry-hot), and melancholy (dry-cold).
He not only lists its uses, but tries to explain its actions: for example, ‘The emulsion of the seed is good for the jaundice, if there be ague accompanying it, for it opens obstructions of the gall, and causes digestion of choler .’
When he says that hops purges choler , he doesn't mean in the same way as scammony does because scammony could kill you if given in excessive doses but hops will probably just put you to sleep.
Midway through the book, I discover a page written entirely in French, from a 1614 medical textbook, describing the four humours (blood, choler , melancholy and phlegm) and what each tasted like; what each was good for.
While ministers talked of ‘demonic possession,’ doctors attributed mental illnesses to an imbalance of the four bodily ‘humors’: blood, phlegm, choler , and black bile.
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