Humors

Early Greek physicians believed all medicine could be based on an understanding of these fluids, which they called humors. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)

Because their diet was so healthful — Cárdenas thought chile and maize tortillas helped to cleanse and "dry out" the bad humors from the body — they rarely suffered from such maladies as "rheumatism, de ijada, urine or stomach [problems]." ❋ Unknown (2008)

The name humors me since they are naming it after an event that took place in a state that pretty strongly supports Obama and the Democrats .... ❋ Unknown (2009)

It’s like arguing about which of the 4 humors is responsible for a cold ❋ Unknown (2009)

The human body, Hippocrates proposed, was composed of four cardinal fluids called humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

There were four of them, called humors, and a series of characteristics was assigned to each, but not one of them had all of its characteristics at once. ❋ Unknown (1911)

That was her reward of childless matrimony, as the appreciation of her humors was his. ❋ Will Irwin (1910)

"humors" -- blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile -- and that disease was caused by the undue accumulation of some one of these humors in some organ, which it was the business of the physician to get rid of by blood - letting, blistering, purging, or other means. ❋ Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1904)

The Greeks, too, thought temperament was governed by substances in the body: not neurotransmitters, but such "humors" as the black bile that caused the "melancholic" disposition. ❋ Unknown (2008)

a number of humors, that is, oddities and affectations of various sorts, and played them off on one another, as Ben Jonson afterward did in his comedies of humor. ❋ Unknown (1886)

Galen himself (c. 130 – c. 200) had guessed wildly, and wrongly, in no fewer than five hundred treatises on medicine and philosophy, that everything about human disease could be explained by the misdistribution of "humors" in the body. ❋ Thomas, Lewis (1987)

This divides the eye space into two separate compartments, which are filled with the so-called "humors" of the eye. ❋ Francis M. Walters (N/A)

Jonson's comedy of 'humors' includes _Volpone_ (1605), which overstepped the bounds of comedy in its denunciation of evil, the _Alchemist_ (1611), perhaps the best English play on the Latin model, and _Bartholomew Fair_ (1614), most original and English of them all. ❋ William Allan Nielson (N/A)

Consider the "humors" of the Welsh and French speeches and episodes as exploitations and developments of the similar humors of Fluellen and the Frenchmen of "Henry V." ❋ Charlotte Endymion Porter (1900)

Yet it is true that the "humors" of Ben Jonson have an analogy with the extremer instances of Dickens's character sketches in this respect, namely, that they are both studies of the eccentric, the abnormal, the whimsical, rather than of the typical and universal; studies of manners, rather than of whole characters. ❋ Unknown (1886)

The serious business of life was that which occupied other pretty girls of her time and her social position, -- dressing, dancing, flirting, learning a new stitch at the embroidery frame, or a new air on "the instrument"; while all the time she was observing, with those soft hazel eyes of hers, what honest Nym calls the "humors" of the world about her. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

But in those stern days such weak and hysterical spirits had no fair vent for their "humors," save in being reconciled to the Church of Rome, and plotting with Jesuits to assassinate the queen, as Parry and Somerville, and many other madmen, did. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

The variety of humors which is to be found in her novels is immense; and though the talk of each person separately is monotonous, the general effect is not monotony, but a very lively and agreeable diversity. ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)