Eduqas GCSE History · C100
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The ancient medical theory that health depended on balancing four bodily fluids: blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile.
Revise: The Black DeathMedical thinking also drew on the ancient Four Humours. Doctors believed health depended on balancing blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. An imbalance could therefore be used to explain illness.
- Revise: Treating and Curing Disease
The belief that health depended on the balance of four bodily fluids and that an imbalance caused illness.