Author: D. H. Jacques

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9781330130315

Excerpt from The Temperaments: Or the Varieties of Physical Constitution in Man The literature of the Temperaments is very scanty If the physiologist or student of human nature will survey the field from the time even of Hippocrates, he will be astonished by the paucity of authors who have given to the world aught in the way of observations or speculations on the nature and characteristic influence of the physical constitution expressed by the term Temperament. Indeed, he may count the treatises known to the world upon his fingers. This singular fact can not be imputed to a lack of information on the subject, for the medicists of the times of Hippocrates and Galen held certain well-defined views concerning peculiar conditions or diatheses of the human body, and the vocation of the physician necessarily required him to consider in some way the mental and physical constitution of his patients, and to adapt his treatment, whatever it might be, to their systemic habits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.