Ancient Greek & Roman Medicine
You're Dead to Me
The Four Sorts of Moods
There were multiple schools of thought in the ancient world about what caused illness. A phlegmatic person is a good leader, it meant sort of sluggish and horrible and eugh. Another physician who was working in Rome about the same time as Galen asclopieties became very popular. He believed that the body was made up of atoms and that illness was caused by the atoms not being able to move freely and regularly throughout the body.
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