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Thursday 7 August 2014

Psychiatry - Ancient Greeks Return to Haunt Us


In ancient psychiatry 'four temperaments' proposed by Galen, a Greek phsician, asserted that four bodily fluids were responsible for aspects of behavior: blood, bile, black bile, and phlegm, according to a new study - he may have had something


 Galen was know as 'doctor to the gladiators' - he must've done something right?




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