Passions and Tempers: A History of the HumoursNew in paperback, in the tradition of The Botany of Desire, a delightful account combining history, literature and philosophy through a 2,500 year journey from the origins of humours in ancient Greece to the present day. Physicians in ancient Greece believed four humours flowed within the human bodyblood, phlegm, black bile, and cholerdetermining a person's health, mood, and character. Not until the seventeenth century would a more complex view of the