Irina Sidorova's 4 Humours

BLOOD
'The Sanguine Temperament'

BLACK BILE
'The Melancholic Temperament'

YELLOW BILE
'The Choleric Temperament'

PHLEGM
'The Phlegmatic Temperament'

Irina Sidorova created these fun pieces to illustrate her effective interpretation of Hippocrates Theories of the 4 Humours.

She says that:

He [Hippocrates] stated that human behavior depends on the number and density of fluids in human body, initial liquids were blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm. Furthermore, fluids were located in different parts of the body, these were: head, gall bladder, spleen and lungs. His theory was a foundation for the modern temperament theory. Temperaments are known now as sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic.

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