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What’s normal anxiety and what’s an anxiety disorder?

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter

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The Four Humours

Before germs and genetics, people blamed everything on the humors. This was also the time an doctors believed that the key to how your body worked was something called the four humors. Professor king says blood was the humor associated with women and their wombs. Most female maladies were blamed on a blood in balance, or her womb wandering around inside her body.

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