of four components or "four humours". The four components are: Blood formed at the heart – Spring – Air, Phlegm in the brain – Winter – Water, Yellow Bile in the liver – Summer – Fire and Black Bile in the spleen – Autumn – Earth. Hippocrates argued that when these four fluids were out of balance disease occurred. The ideal place for a good balance of humours was (naturally) found in the centre of Greek culture, namely in the Aegean and in and around Athens. The components were each linked to a different season, these physicians believed that some diseases were more common in different seasons e.g. fevers were common in Summer/Fire.
             Doctors used an important practice called vivisection. Even though this was a cruel practice, medicine couldn't be as advanced as it is today without it. Vivisection &nda
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