The ancient Greeks described the four humors, a theory that personality results from a ... “People have tried to classify personality types since Hippocrates’s time, but previous scientific literature ...

Galen was influential for expanding on Hippocrates's theories of the four humours. His medical writings were very influential and his ideas and medical practices and methods remained in use for ...

Hippocrates thought that to treat people effectively we must first try to understand how the human body worked… He invented the theory of - ‘The Four Humours’ which hypothesised that the ...