Four humours/qualities. Fiery and choleric (left), airey and sanguine (second left), moist and melancholic (second right), earthy and phlegmatic (right). Connoiseurs looking at Chodowiecki's painting of 'Calas's Farewell to his Wife'. Engraving by Reynolds Grignion (d. 1787). From JC Lavater Essays in Physiognomy, London, 1789-98. Translated by Henry Hunter, Physcopathology: Hippocrates (f1 ca. 400 BC) thought behaviours and temperament due to balance or imbalance of the four humours in the body.

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