How To Use Black bile In A Sentence

  • An example is the belief, originating in classical times, that disease is caused by an imbalance among four bodily humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
  • By contrast, Rene Descartes notes that there are people "whose cerebella are so troubled and clouded by the violent vapours of black bile, that they ... imagine that they have an earthenware head or are nothing but pumpkins or are made of glass. Warranted Christian Belief
  • ‘Depression’, ‘grief’, ‘melancholia’, ‘black bile’, ‘accidie’ are, it is true, not synonymous, nor do they, probably, refer to precisely the same phenomena; but does that mean that there are no such dark phenomena? Jane O'Grady - Can a machine change your mind?
  • Our bodies were thought to be composed of blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile just as the world at large consisted of earth, air, fire, and water.
  • the humors are blood and phlegm and yellow and black bile
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  • humors" -- blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile -- and that disease was caused by the undue accumulation of some one of these humors in some organ, which it was the business of the physician to get rid of by blood - letting, blistering, purging, or other means. The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
  • So if you've got an excess of black bile, you're melancholy; if there's a lot of blood running through you, you're sanguine.
  • Illness, according to Galen, was caused by an imbalance of the body's four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
  • According to this theory, the most important determinants of health were the four humours found in the body: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.
  • 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.
  • Rene Descartes notes that there are people "whose cerebella are so troubled and clouded by the violent vapours of black bile, that they ... imagine that they have an earthenware head or are nothing but pumpkins or are made of glass. Warranted Christian Belief
  • While ministers talked of ‘demonic possession,’ doctors attributed mental illnesses to an imbalance of the four bodily ‘humors’: blood, phlegm, choler, and black bile.
  • When it is mingled with black bile and dispersed about the courses of the head, which are the divinest part of us, the attack if coming on in sleep, is not so severe; but when assailing those who are awake it is hard to be got rid of, and being an affection of a sacred part, is most justly called sacred. Timaeus
  • Imbalance of the humours resulted in various temperaments, thus the dominance of black bile causes melancholy; blood, sanguine temperament; phlegm, a phlegmatic temperament; or yellow bile, a choleric temperament.
  • Hippocrates attributed ‘hysteria’ to a woman's uterus, and blamed ‘melancholia’ on black bile, which he attempted to treat with purgatives.
  • There are also four elements: fire, earth, air and water; and four humors - choler or yellow bile, melancholer or black bile, blood and phlegm.
  • Black bile may not have existed discernably in normal tissue, but tumors should have been chock-full of it. The Emperor of All Maladies
  • By the sixteenth century hypochondria had become an aspect of melancholy and was associated especially with the humour of black bile and with the spleen, the organ that was supposed to clear black bile from the body.
  • According to this theory, the most important determinants of health were the four humours found in the body: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.
  • There are also four elements: fire, earth, air and water; and four humors - choler or yellow bile, melancholer or black bile, blood and phlegm.
  • According to this theory, the most important determinants of health were the four humours found in the body: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.
  • The human body, Hippocrates proposed, was composed of four cardinal fluids called humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm. The Emperor of All Maladies
  • So if you've got an excess of black bile, you're melancholy; if there's a lot of blood running through you, you're sanguine.

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