humors

Some of my favorite quotes from Donnie Darko. I think they're hilarious, whether it be dark or innocent humor. #1 Gretchen: My mom had to get a restraining order against my stepdad. He has emotional problems. Donnie: Oh, I have those, too. What kind of emotional problems does your dad have...

...it have on the play? Four humors= choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic and sanguine

Sanguin,melancholic etc.Then modern psychiatry came and started using different models.Psychiatry doesn't have the answers either as so many people are depressed or on some form of psych meds or another. Were the 4 humor theories found to be incorrect as medicine progressed or they just went out...

I'm doing an english project on Elizabethan medicine and in a book it talks about the 4 humors?? what's a humor?

caused diseases? I know it started with Hippocrates in 400 BC (the theory that imbalances of yellow bile, black bile, blood, and phlegm caused diseases), but when did it end? Sometime in the 19th century, yes, but I need an estimated date. For instance: the 1820s, or earlier than that? Not until...

how do the four humors affect literature and when are they used ? i'm having trouble finding specific references.

Just tell me the link. On what web site.