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Body fluids and temperament


molbol2000

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Тemperaments used to be determined by the predominance of fluids in the blood sediment. That is, literally by the composition of the blood.

Was this method actually working?

If not, why this classification was taken just from there? I think it is evidence that method works

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2 hours ago, molbol2000 said:

Was this method actually working?

No

2 hours ago, molbol2000 said:

If not, why this classification was taken just from there? I

It isn't. Nobody  seriously uses those classifications any more.
Your doctor s unlikely to categorise you as sanguine, choleric, melancholic or phlegmatic.

2 hours ago, molbol2000 said:

I think it is evidence that method works

If they used it, you might have a point, but they don't.

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1 hour ago, John Cuthber said:

No

What if run such an experiment? Did anyone that in modern times?
It is unlikely that the method was invented out of nothing when it practice in the ancient times

Also would be interesting to check proposition that only melancholyc can be genius, it also was considered so in that times

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1 hour ago, molbol2000 said:

such an experiment?

What experiment?
The "4 humours" don't really exist.
Snot is not a character trait.

 

1 hour ago, molbol2000 said:

Also would be interesting to check proposition that only melancholyc can be genius,

Melancholic does not really exist so, that's impossible.
No experiment needed (or, indeed, possible).

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8 minutes ago, John Cuthber said:

What experiment?
The "4 humours" don't really exist.

Take blood, stand in a glass, waiting for separation into 4 fractions.
It doesn't matter what we call these factions,  humours or something else.
Then collect statistics in comparison with temperaments

 

13 minutes ago, John Cuthber said:

Melancholic does not really exist so

There are properties that considered as melancholic

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I think that these concepts of the ancients about the genius of melancholic people have a physical basis. Melancholic is a highly excitable type, and a strong impulse is needed to activate the brain

"Black bile" may act as a neurotransmitter

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2 hours ago, John Cuthber said:

And when it doesn't...?

It seems that tincture wrong, there must be 4 fractions. There may be a wrong time delay

 

oops. This is centrifugation. it's not that at all

 

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