#humors

i designed my backup character for my current dnd campaign and every time i look at her i'm tempted to throw my current character into a fire so i can play her instead. her name is Offal.

Hippocrates and Galen theorized that the human body contained four fluids, or humors - blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. A balance of these was required for good health, and disease was blamed on imbalance. This belief continued through the middle ages, and illustrations of the various natures caused by the humors appear in medical texts, including LJS 463, a 15th century collection of medical and astrological texts from Germany. Clockwise from top left: melancholy (black bile), phlegm (phlegmatic), sanguine (blood), choleric (yellow bile).

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