| Therapeutic measures such as bleeding and purging, designed originally to get rid or excess or malign humours, continued to be used. |
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| She wrote at length on the four humours and on the temperaments of people according to the phase of the Moon in which they were conceived. |
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| Galen's views about the four humours and the importance of food for health were translated into Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, and finally Latin. |
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| In humoral physiology a good fever was seen to eliminate impurities from the body and clarify all the humours. |
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| Absolutely and at the core of their approach was of course the idea that we are made up of the balance of four humours. |
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| According to Ayurvedic theory, the body is composed of three doshas or humours. |
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| Hysteria was at one time thought to be caused by the womb moving upwards due to the influence of malign humours. |
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| The vitreous and aqueous humours both refract light and exert pressure to help maintain the shape of the eyeball. |
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| Similarly, Ayurveda outlines gunas or states of consciousness with each of the three humours or tridosha, which is the basis of Ayurvedic diagnosis. |
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| Some of these methods are still used today, particularly the concepts of balancing out the four elements, nine temperaments and four humours that make up the human body. |
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| If it come of cold humours, the ache is less with grief of head, with swelling and paleness of face with sour bolking and unsavouriness of the mouth. |
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| The second expel the humours of the body by means of purgatives, emetics, things that smell so. |
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| Melancholia was known and experienced in the middle ages, a darkness of the mind resulting from an inbalance of the humours. |
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| In the 19th century, physicians recommended it as a way to eliminate black bile and rebalance the bodily humours. |
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| These humours could determine the health of the body and the personality of the individual as well. |
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| Curiously enough, science is taking us back to the middle ages, back to the idea of the humours. |
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| Ill health could be remedied by treatments to realign the humours and re-establish the harmony. |
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| A times humours and light-hearted, at times emotional and grave, fifteen songs honed to lost and touch the hearts of children and adults alike. |
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| Our civilisation has not prospered for two thousand years without bearing traces of the theory of humours. |
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| Though the fair and dark sisters, Minna and Brenda, were popular, and Cleveland himself had a vogue, the humours of the Udaler and of the agriculturist were not enjoyed. |
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| In the eighteenth century madness was seen as either animalism, best controlled by harsh restraint, or as imbalances in bodily humours, treated by bleeding. |
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| The atrabilious temperament or melancholia is, according to Aristotle, a natural disposition in which there is a preponderance of black bile over the other humours. |
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| The female incapable of intellectual purpose, governed by her whims and humours, is a misogynistic cliche not only of the time, but very much of his writings. |
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| Are we so far away from ancient theories of humours and temperaments? |
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| Rising up to sit, recall the action of carding woollens in due season, and move thy legs briskly in such motion, to expunge the foul humours which course through thy flesh. |
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| The plethora renders us lean, by suppressing our spirits, whereby they are incapacitated of digesting the alimonious humours into flesh. |
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| This contrariety of humours betwixt my father and my uncle, was the source of many a fraternal squabble. |
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| Epicerastic medicines obtund the acrimony of the humours, and mitigate the uneasy sensation thence arising. |
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| Interpreting the text in the light of humours reduces the amount of plot attributed to chance by modern audiences. |
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| The fluxion proceedeth humours peccant in quantity or quality, thrust forth by the part mittent upon the inferior weak parts. |
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| In high doses, its active ingredient, emetine, causes vomiting. The belief was that this rid the body of excess bile, thus restoring the balance of the humours. |
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| These eliminations processes are involved in the improvement of health, in the body's recovery, by the elimination of unnecessary and stagnant materials that block the free circulation of the humours. |
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| Virchow's work Die Cellularpathologie, published in 1858, gave the deathblow to the outmoded view that disease is due to an imbalance of the four humours. |
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| The astrological signs of the zodiac were also thought to be associated with certain humours. |
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| The success of herbal remedies was often ascribed to their action upon the humours within the body. |
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| Many are perfect in men's humours that are not greatly capable of the real part of business. |
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| Her past mistakes have led her to a situation in which her promise to spend more on public services is uncomfortably dependent on the humours of international investors. |
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| Jonson's aesthetics hark back to the Middle Ages and his characters embody the theory of humours, which was based on contemporary medical theory. |
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| These humours, the akhlat, suffuse the body's cells, interstitial spaces, and vascular channels, affecting physical and behavioral well-being, and are most stable in a healthy individual. |
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| To be in good health the humours should be in harmony with the body. |
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| Is my friend all perfection, all virtue and discretion? Has he not humours to be endured? |
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| That temperamentall dignotions, and conjecture of prevalent humours, may be collected from spots in our nails, we are not averse to concede. |
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| The four humours are blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. |
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| The underlying principle of medieval medicine was the theory of humours. |
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