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=== Humorism (Hippocrates) === [[File:Hippocrates (Paulus Pontius after Peter Paul Rubens).jpg|alt=An engraving of Hippocrates by Peter Paul Rubens, 1638|thumb|158x158px|Hippocrates]] According to [[Galen]], these elements were used by [[Hippocrates]] ({{circa|460|370 BC}}) in describing the [[human body]] with an association with the [[Humorism|four humours]]: yellow [[bile]] (fire), [[Melancholia|black bile]] (earth), [[blood]] (air), and [[phlegm]] (water). Medical care was primarily about helping the patient stay in or return to their own personal natural balanced state.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lindemann |first=Mary |title=Medicine and Society in early Modern Europe |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-521-73256-7 |page=19}}</ref>
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