The humours
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also in the atlas: The humours the idea
the humours · akhlāṭ · al-akhlāṭ · الأخلاط
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The bodily humours of Galenic medicine, whose corruption is the analogue of vice; the printed edition's wording leaves the comparison defective.
for the vices of character sicken the soul and make it wretched, just as the corruptions of the humours sicken the soul and bring it to ruin.
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The bodily fluids of Galenic medicine, which some physicians proposed as the identity of the soul.
others claimed that it is the humours;