Melancholia
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melancholia-187-17464834
title:
Melancholia
text:
Melancholia or melancholy is a concept found throughout ancient, medieval, and premodern medicine in Europe that describes a condition characterized by markedly depressed mood, bodily complaints, and sometimes hallucinations and delusions. Melancholy was regarded as one of the four temperaments matching the four humours. Until the 18th century, doctors and other scholars classified melancholic conditions as such by their perceived common cause – an excess of a notional fluid known as "black bile
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Historical view of extreme depression
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melancholia
date created:
2002-02-25T15:43:11Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T15:30:50Z
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