Health without physic, or, Cordials for youth, manhood, and old age : including maxims, moral and facetious; for the prevention of disease, and the attainment of a long and vigorous life / by an old physician [pseud.].

  • Alcott, William A. (William Andrus), 1798-1859.
Date:
1830
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    SECTION II. SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON DIFFERENT CONSTITUTIONS AND TEMPERS. According to Hippocrates, the human body contains four humours very different with respect to heat, cold, moisture, and dryness—namely, blood, phlegm, yellow- bile, and black bile; which several humours are fre- quently brought up by vomiting, and discharged in the opposite direction; that health consists in a due mixture of these four humours; and that distempers are pro- duced by a redundancy in any of them. Upon this observation of the « father of physic, the four principal temperaments of choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic, and sanguine, have been established. But Galen' who was always partial to subtilities and divisions, has reckoned up nine kinds of constitutions, namely, four simple, the hot, the cold, the moist, and the dry ; four compound, the hot and moist, the hot and dry, the cold and moist, the cold and dry; and one moderate healthy temperament, consisting in a mediocrity, in- clining to no extreme. As the most simple division, and that which will be here best understood, we shall prefer that of Hippocrates; and to convey a distinct idea of these constitutions, it