Show 00 ho how wa it started by JENN JEAN NEWTON N I 1 HUMOR IN THE common use of tile the word to erx express press a state of mind as bad or good hu humor mor we ve find in an interesting story of a bygone medical theory which has been outlived by its terminology min at the time when the barber was the surgeon the medical profession had biad a theory that man mentally and physically was cout controlled rolled by four physical factors four humors if in 1 tile the body certain combinations of willell which gave specific humors or tempers to ones onea health and disposition phy sic ste ians lans bulletins of that time would perhaps make interesting rending reading they might run ehing like this x Y z it ir tills this Is a good illustration of the wealth of history lil story embodied in language not scientific etymological language but bu the words here ond and lher there which belonged to some gome custom or theory or tiling copyright 0 |