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In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.
James Hillman

Meaning of "black bile" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BLACK BILE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLACK BILE

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Black bile is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BLACK BILE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

black bile

Melancholia

Melancholia, also lugubriousness, from the Latin lugere, to mourn; moroseness, from the Latin morosus, self-willed, fastidious habit; wistfulness, from old English wist: intent, or saturnine, was a concept in ancient and pre-modern medicine. Melancholy was one of the four temperaments matching the four humours. In the 19th century, "melancholia" could be physical as well as mental, and melancholic conditions were classified as such by their common cause rather than by their properties.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BLACK BILE

black bag
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black bean
black bear
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black bindweed
Black Bloc
Black Block
black body
black book
black books
black bottom
black box
black box recorder
black boy
black bread
black bream
black bryony
black bun

WORDS THAT END LIKE BLACK BILE

airmobile
amabile
automobile
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yellow bile

Synonyms and antonyms of black bile in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «black bile» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BLACK BILE

Find out the translation of black bile to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of black bile from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «black bile» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

黑胆汁
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bilis negro
570 millions of speakers

English

black bile
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

काला पित्त
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الصفراء السوداء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

черная желчь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bile negra
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কালো পিত্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bile noire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hempedu hitam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schwarze Galle
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

黒胆汁
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

검은 담즙
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ireng empedu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mật đen
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கருப்பு பித்த
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

काळे पित्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kara safra
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bile nera
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

czarna żółć
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

чорна жовч
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bila neagră
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μαύρη χολή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

swart gal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

svart galla
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

svart galle
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about black bile

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QUOTES WITH «BLACK BILE»

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James Hillman
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLACK BILE»

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The Traditional Healer's Handbook: A Classic Guide to the ...
Yellow Bile Humor Yellow bile becomes unbalanced in five ways: (1) soft moisture mixed with it; (2) thick moisture mixed with it; (3) corrupted black bile mixed with it; (4) hot black bile mixed with it, called thick yellow bile; (5) excess of heat, ...
Ghulam Moinuddin Chishti, Hakim G. M. Chishti, 1990
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Holistic Healing
Through his anger a man will very often become very sick, for over time the harmful humors make him sick if they often become stirred up in his bile and black bile. If man did not have the bitter bile and the black bile, he would always be ...
Saint Hildegard, Mary Palmquist, 1994
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The Worlds of Renaissance Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context
The first was the physiological 'matter' of melancholy (1.166.8—168.9 [1.1.3.3D. As the etymology of the disease indicated, its physiology derived its principal characteristics from the humour black bile. This was the case in most of the medical ...
Angus Gowland, 2006
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The Nature of Melancholy: From Aristotle to Kristeva
If black bile — either simple or mixed — putrefies, it produces quartan fever, swellings of the spleen, and many infirmities of the same kind. When it is too abundant, whether alone or joined with phlegm, it makes the spirits heavier and colder, ...
Jennifer Radden, 2002
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Loss: The Politics of Mourning
The four humors — blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm — were bodily fluids whose qualities and quantities determined both health and disease. Essential to life but also potentially harmful, the humors materially embodied physical as ...
David L. Eng, David Kazanjian, 2003
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Medieval Medicine
... degree Blood 4 4th degree Blood 4 3 2 1 Phlegm Bile Black bile 3 2 1 Phlegm Bile Black bile 3 2 1 Phlegm Bile Black bile 3 2 1 Phlegm Bile Black bile 6 2 1 Phlegm Bile Black bile 12 2 1 Phlegm Bile Black bile 24 2 1 Phlegm Bile Black bile ...
Plinio Prioreschi, 2003
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British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of ...
Some, who still contend that it is not yellow fever, assert that the black matter thrown from the stomach during the life of the patient, and found in it after death, is nothing more than black bile, mixed with the secretions of the stomach, the ...
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History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology: With an ...
further by Galen, this notion led later physicians to think in terms of (1) natural black bile as one of the four basic humors, sometimes derived from basic foodstuffs and merely present, and sometimes as a thick and cold residue derived from the ...
Edwin R. Wallace, John Gach, 2010
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Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen: Selected Papers
Thus, although the author of Nature of Man is, as we have just seen, the inventor of black bile, he is not the inventor of the melancholic temperament. Of course, there are a few passages in the Hippocratic Corpus where the melancholic ...
Jacques Jouanna, Philip Van Der Eijk, 2012
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Ancient Medicine
explain the notion of black bile entirely, for until this treatise references to black bile itself as a specific substance are almost entirely absent, and when they are found they serve simply to distinguish this type of bile from bile of other types and  ...
Vivian Nutton, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLACK BILE»

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Retired UCCC professor practices Revolutionary medicine as a re …
“The four humors were black bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood,” he said. The concept was, that if any of those were unbalanced, it would lead ... «The Daily Freeman, Jun 15»
2
Cockles of the heart need warming
Centuries ago, humans were thought to be governed by four humours: phlegm, blood, choler (yellow bile) and melancholy (black bile). «Casper Journal, Jun 15»
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From Ancient Tumors To Today's Breakthroughs: A Brief History Of …
... phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile — and that any diseases resulted from an excess of any of these. This theory was held from ancient times ... «Medical Daily, Jun 15»
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Humoral science and humour
Black bile (cold and dry) produced in the spleen was associated with the earth . Blood (hot and wet) produced in the heart was associated with ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Jun 15»
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Can One's Personality Really Be Developed Through Workshops …
Ever since the days Hippocrates' descriptions of the almost four humours (blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm) that resulted in four ... «AllAfrica.com, Jun 15»
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Listen to Rudi Zygadlo's New Tune "Black Bile" and Read His Dating …
Rudi Zygadlo claims multiple times in this OkCupid-cribbed questionnaire below that he is tanned. This is total nonsense, so I'm not sure how ... «Noisey, Jun 15»
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In pursuit of mental health's holy grail
Black bile. Such archaic notions of mental illness have given way to clinical terms. Now we have schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, social phobia, ... «The Globe and Mail, May 15»
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10 strange, old school medical remedies
It was considered key in humoral medicine, which is medicine based on the four humors in the body: black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood. «HLNtv.com, May 15»
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Notes From a Dive Bar VI
Cream deposits float on black bile in the pan. The walls, floor, even the ceiling is dripping. It's like being inside an abstract painting, the pallet ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
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5 Reasons That The Middle Ages Were Absolutely Terrifying, So …
Doctors of the period understood the human body in terms of the four humors (phlegm, blood, yellow bile, and black bile) and believed that good health ... «Bustle, May 15»

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