Polybus (physician)

Polybus (physician)

Polybus (fl. c. 400 BCE) was an ancient Greek physician and author of the Hippocratic treatise "On the Nature of Man", the earliest known text to advance a four-humor system of blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. According to Galen, he was the student and son-in-law of Hippocrates.


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