Black bile
idea · 3 works · 4 mentions · 10 anchored passages
black bile · black-bile humour · khilṭ sawdāwī · melancholic · melancholic affection · melancholic affections · melancholic causes · خلط سوداوي
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Aphorisms
A humoral disease category (melancholy/black bile) with defining symptoms and consequences
Hemorrhoids appearing in melancholic and nephritic affections are favorable.
If a fright or despondency lasts for a long time, it is a melancholic affection.
In melancholic affections, determinations of the humor which occasions them produce the following diseases;
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The melancholic humour, described as discharged from the spleen into the stomach's mouth and as the direct cause of the feeling of hunger.
And the sense of hunger comes to man by means of a wholesome black-bile humour (*khilṭ sawdāwī*) that pours into the mouth of the stomach from the spleen through a passage existing (3) between the two, and it moves (3) the stomach to seek food.
De diaeta acutorum
A humoral/temperamental category (melancholia, black bile-related) used to explain symptoms and predict outcomes.
In tetanus of the loins, and when from melancholic causes there are suppressions of the breaths through the vessels, bloodletting delivers the patient.
Most such patients pluck at flocks and pick at their noses, and answer briefly what is asked, but of themselves say nothing collected;
and if the patient be in the prime of life and have the body in good flesh from exercises, or be melancholic, or have tremulous hands from drinking, it is well to foretell delirium or convulsion;