black bile

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black bile

humor effecting temperament of gloominess. [Medieval Physiology: Hall, 130]

See : Melancholy

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According to medieval physiology there were four chief liquids in the human body, namely blood, phlegm, bile, and black bile, and an excess of any of them produced an undue predominance of the corresponding quality; thus, an excess of phlegm made a person phlegmatic, or dull; or an excess of black bile, melancholy.

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