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Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours
Passions and Tempers A History of the Humours
Author: Noga Arikha
Physicians in ancient Greece believed four humours flowed within the human body?blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler?determining a person's health, mood, and character. Not until the seventeenth century would a more complex view of the anatomy begin to emerge. But by then humoural theory had already become deeply ingrained in Western language a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060731175
ISBN-10: 0060731176
Publication Date: 8/1/2008
Pages: 400
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
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If I ever were to read a book about bodily fluids, this would be the one.


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