Hippocratic temperment

Brian D. McCary bdm at colossus.storz.com
Tue Dec 3 16:59:28 CST 1996


8) What is "Hippocratic temperment"?

	Hmm, didn't he catagorize people by their humors, the bodily
fluids which supposedly dominated their personalities?  The two I 
remember are bileous and phlegmatic, but I think there are two more,
corrosponding to blood and urine.  Could be wrong...

brian



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