A Brief History of Bloodletting Series: A History, P4
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Bloodletting is thought to have originated in ancient Egypt, from where it likely spread to Greece. The Greek physician Hippocrates believed in the theory of humors, which held that four fluids in the body—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile—were primarily responsible for a person’s personality and health. A healthy person would have the four humors in balance, but an excess of yellow bile, for example, indicated too much of the humor known as choler, an imbalance causing a person to be short-tempered and angry (i.e., choleric) and resulting in poor health. Ancient physicians in the Hippocratic tradition (such as Erasistratus, considered a founder of physiology) believed that both mental and physical illnesses were cause by imbalanced humors.
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