Temperaments
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Definition
- The sum of physical peculiarities of an individual exclusive of all tendencies to disease.
- Different temperaments give different degrees of peculiarity to disease, but they do not evolve the disease itself.
- Temperament is physiological and diathesis pathological.
Four Temperaments
- Yellow bile, Choleric
- Black bile, Melancholic
- Phlegm, Phlegmatic
- Blood, Sanguine