Editing Humorism (section)

{{short description|Ancient Greek and Roman system of medicine involving four fluid types}}
{{About|humors in ancient and medieval medicine|the related theory of temperaments|Four temperaments|humors in Ayurveda|Dosha|the use of humor in writing or public speaking|Humorist}}
[[File:Quinta Essentia (Thurneisse) illustration Alchemic approach to four humors in relation to the four elements and zodiacal signs.jpg|thumb|16th-century German illustration of the four humors: ''Flegmat'' (phlegm), ''Sanguin'' (blood), ''Coleric'' (yellow bile) and ''Melanc'' (black bile), divided between the male and female sexes]]
'''Humorism''', the '''humoral theory''', or '''humoralism''', was a system of medicine detailing a supposed makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by [[Ancient Greek medicine|Ancient Greek]] and [[Medicine in ancient Rome|Roman physicians]] and [[Greek philosophy|philosophers]].

Humorism began to fall out of favor in the 17th century and it was definitively disproved with the discovery of microbes.