Theories

• Who created the theory of the four humours?


  Hippocrates
• Who created the theory of opposites?


  Galen
• What are the four humours?


  • blood
  • yellow bile
  • black bile
  • phlegm
• What was the theory of opposites?

  That opposite humours should be balanced and that an imbalance caused illness (e.g too much blood and hot and dry = treated with cucumber because it's cold and wet)