Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours by Noga Arikha

Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours

Noga Arikha

376 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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"Passions and Tempers may excite passions and tempers in some of its readers, as a good work of intellectual history should. You will learn a lot from its pages." --Washington PostThe humours--blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler--were substances...

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