Hippocratic temperment

Ted Samsel tejas at infi.net
Wed Dec 4 09:18:49 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...

Sanguine & choleric.....

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