Editing Humorism (section)

==Unification with Empedocles's model==
[[Empedocles]]'s theory suggested that there are [[Classical element|four elements]]: earth, fire, water, and air, with the earth producing the natural systems. Since this theory was influential for centuries, later scholars paired qualities associated with each humor as described by Hippocrates/Galen with seasons and "basic elements" as described by [[Empedocles]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Wittendorff|first=Alex|title=Tyge Brahe|publisher=G.E.C. Gad|year=1994|page=45}}</ref>

The following table shows the four humors with their corresponding elements, seasons, sites of formation, and resulting temperaments:<ref>{{cite book |author=Lewis-Anthony, Justin |title=Circles of Thorns: Hieronymus Bosch and Being Human |publisher=Bloomsbury |year=2008 |page=70 |isbn=978-1906286217 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7WD45AoYO0EC&q=adulthood}}</ref>
	 
{| cellpadding="5"  style="background:#a8a8a8; font-size:small; table-layout:auto; border:1px; border-color:#000; border-style:solid;"
|- style="background:#edb;"
| '''Humor'''
| '''Season'''
| '''Age'''
| '''Element'''
| '''Organ'''
| colspan="2" | '''Temperaments'''
|- style="background:#feb7b7;"
| Blood
| Spring
| Infancy
| [[Air (classical element)|Air]]
| [[Liver]]
| Warm and moist
| [[Four Temperaments#Sanguine|Sanguine]]
|- style="background:#dfe36f;"
| Yellow bile
| Summer
| Youth
| [[Fire (classical element)|Fire]]
| [[Gallbladder]]
| Warm and dry
| [[Choleric]]
|- style="background:#ccc;"
| Black bile
| Autumn
| Adulthood
| [[Earth (classical element)|Earth]]
| [[Spleen]]
| Cold and dry
| [[Melancholia|Melancholic]]
|- style="background:#a9d889;"
| Phlegm
| Winter
| Old age
| [[Water (classical element)|Water]]
| [[Human brain|Brain]]/[[Lungs]]
| Cold and moist
| [[Phlegmatic]]
|}