亚洲网紅露点

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black bile

noun

  1. one of the four elemental bodily humors of medieval physiology, regarded as causing gloominess.


black bile

noun

  1. archaic.
    one of the four bodily humours; melancholy See humour
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of black bile1

First recorded in 1790鈥1800
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Take humoral theory: In the Middle Ages, the body was thought to consist of four liquid components called humors鈥攂lood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm.

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鈥淚 think a toxic, black bile comes out every time you say something like that.鈥

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The Greek physician Hippocrates believed that people鈥檚 personalities were governed by the amounts of phlegm, blood, black bile and yellow bile that flowed through their bodies.

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Hellebore was prescribed in ancient Greece and the Middle Ages alike for its purgative effects, to rid the body of excess 鈥渂lack bile,鈥 the imagined cause of melancholy.

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The ancient Greeks, for example, believed mental disorders arose when the digestive tract produced too much black bile.

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