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    The Comedy of Humours is a dramatic genre inspired by the medieval medical theory of humours, which proposed that the human body and personality were influenced by four bodily fluids or humours - blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. An imbalance in these humours was believed to directly cause diseases, while a balanced mixture resulted in an ideal temperament. Each humour was associated with a particular temperament based on its predominant quality of hot, cold, wet or dry.

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    The Comedy of Humours is a dramatic genre inspired by the medieval medical theory of humours, which proposed that the human body and personality were influenced by four bodily fluids or humours - blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. An imbalance in these humours was believed to directly cause diseases, while a balanced mixture resulted in an ideal temperament. Each humour was associated with a particular temperament based on its predominant quality of hot, cold, wet or dry.

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    (N'QP .Q-: Blood +'sanguine'

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    The Comedy of Humours is a dramatic genre inspired by the medieval medical theory of humours, which proposed that the human body and personality were influenced by four bodily fluids or humours - blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. An imbalance in these humours was believed to directly cause diseases, while a balanced mixture resulted in an ideal temperament. Each humour was associated with a particular temperament based on its predominant quality of hot, cold, wet or dry.

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    {n'QP*.q- o\-t\q- R>The Comedy of Humours

    Dramatic genre inspired by th-e medievar medicar theory of humours

    humours (ancients) = bodily fluids that permeated body & influenced its health/ personality
    balance - a determining factor of human health imbalance

    eucrosia

    directly caused diseases

    dyscrosio

    "temperament" - Galen
    bodily dispositions (susceptibility to particular diseases)
    psychlogical dispositions, behavioural and emotional inclinations balanced mixture of the four qualities >> ideal temperament

    predominance of each of these 4 secretions within the body (earth, air, fire, and water) >> specific temperament

    blood +'sanguine'
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    choler (or yellow bile)


    black bile

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    'choleric'

    ='melancholic,
    Hippocrates's four humours

    c. 400 B.C.

    yellow bile

    black bile

    phlegm

    season

    summer

    autumn

    winter

    element

    fire

    earth

    water

    organ

    liver

    brain/lungs

    gall bladder

    quality

    dry & hot

    dry & cold

    wet

    & cold

    characteristic

    easily angered, bad tempered

    despondent, sleepless,

    calm, unemotional

    irritable

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