Editing Humorism (section)

===Blood===
It was thought that the nutritional value of the blood was the source of energy for the body and the soul. Blood was believed to consist of small proportional amounts of the other three humors. This meant that taking a blood sample would allow for determination of the balance of the four humors in the body.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2021|title=Biomedicine and Health: Galen and Humoral Theory|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/science-magazines/biomedicine-and-health-galen-and-humoral-theory|website=encyclopedia.com}}</ref> It was associated with a [[Four temperaments#Four fundamental personality types|sanguine]] nature (enthusiastic, active, and social).<ref>[http://classprojects.kenyon.edu/wmns/Wmns36/bloodli/medframe.htm Medical Blood] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226173144/http://classprojects.kenyon.edu/wmns/Wmns36/bloodli/medframe.htm |date=2015-02-26 }} Page accessed Feb 15, 2015</ref><ref>Byron Good. [https://books.google.com/books?id=p7-Enmqb604C&dq=humours+blood+liver&pg=PA105 Medicine, Rationality and Experience: An Anthropological Perspective] Cambridge University Press, 1994 {{ISBN|978-0521425766}}</ref>{{rp|103–05}} Blood is considered to be hot and wet, sharing these characteristics with the season of spring.<ref name="Brill">{{cite book|last1=Jouanna|first1=Jacques|title=The Legacy of the Hippocrates Treatise The Nature of Man: The Theory of the Four Humours|date=2012|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w76vxr.21|work=Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen|pages=335–60|editor-last=van der Eijk|editor-first=Philip|series=Selected Papers|publisher=Brill|access-date=2021-12-06|last2=Allies|first2=Neil|chapter=The Legacy of the Hippocratic Treatise the Nature of Man|jstor=10.1163/j.ctt1w76vxr.21}}</ref>