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Humorism
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<p>Humorism, the humoral theory, or humoralism, was a system of medicine detailing a supposed makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by <a href="/facts/Ancient_Greek_medicine/QwEIau1g">Ancient Greek</a> and <a href="/facts/Medicine_in_ancient_Rome/dVFItamp">Roman physicians</a> and <a href="/facts/Greek_philosophy/LWEkp8JX">philosophers</a>. </p><p>Humorism began to fall out of favor in the 17th century and it was definitively disproved with the discovery of microbes. </p>