Stories
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Shakespeare and the four humours
Blood. Phlegm. Black bile. Yellow bile. The theory of the four humours informed many of Shakespeare's best-known characters, including the phlegmatic Falstaff.
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Hamlet, the melancholic Prince of Denmark
Hamlet clearly demonstrates an excess of black bile and is arguably the most famous literary melancholic.
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Shakespeare’s cholerics were the real drama queens
In Shakespeare’s times, people’s personalities were categorised by four temperaments. The choleric temperament was hot-tempered and active.
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The metamorphosis of masturbation
Throughout history, medics and campaigners have tried to stamp out masturbation – but is modern science transforming its reputation?
Catalogue
- Ephemera
- Online
Bile Beans for biliousness : world's greatest specific / Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.
Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.Date: [between 1900 and 1909]- Books
Bile bean budget of original compositions for voice and piano / published, copyrighted & controlled by the Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.
Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]
- Ephemera
- Online
Bile Beans for biliousness : cure indigestion, headache, constipation, dyspepsia, piles and female ailments ...influenza, liver chill, colds, rheumatism, sciatica, gout and all liver troubles / The Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.
Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.Date: [1902]- Books
Bile bean cookery book / [The Bile Bean Manufacturing Co].
Bile Bean Manufacturing Co.Date: [1906?]- Books
Bile salts / G.A.D. Haslewood.
Haslewood, G. A. D.Date: [1967]