Northern Renaissance Flashcards

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The Four Humours

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the four fluids of the human body, bad sign when they leave the human body. Medieval doctors would keep an eye out for these to keep people healthy. Believed any disease, mental or physical, was caused by an imbalance of these 4 fluids.

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Melancholic (Black Bile)

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if dominating your body, you had depression (elk)

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Choleric (Yellow Bile)

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if dominating your body, you have anger management issues (cat)

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Sanguine (Blood)

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if dominating your body, you are cold, manipulative and calculating (rabbit)

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Phlegmatic (Phlegm)

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if dominating your body, you are lazy, complaining, sloth (ox)

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