What were the four humors in medieval times?

The medieval term the four humors refers to what were thought to be the primary bodily fluids: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.

These represented a human’s four basic temperaments: sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric, and melancholic.

The idea remained popular into the Elizabethan Age.

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