Tag Archives: black bile

Blood, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm: An inseparable balance?

February 5, 2020

John Graham-Pole Clydesdale, NS, Canada   Visiting the Island of Cos, Greece, 2013. Left: Under the plane tree; top: Hippocratic humors; right: Temple of Cos; bottom: Greek friend bearing sage Life blood: Humor and health In 1960, I entered St. Bartholomew’s Medical School on a full classics scholarship. I was a devotee of Hippocrates, with […]

Bloody beginnings of hematology

January 29, 2020

Sherin Jose Chockattu Bengaluru, India Bloodletting in 1860 – one of only three known photographs of the procedure. This photo is from the Burns Archive collection. From Burns Archive. His pole, with pewter basins hung, Black, rotten teeth in order strung, Rang’d cups that in the window stood, Lin’d with red rags, to look like […]