January 1970
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This chapter examines the organs of the four temperaments. The following topics are discussed: The four temperaments named after four internal organs of the body; The four organs, and their influence on the mental action of the four temperaments; Relation of the four temperaments to the causes of disease; Food and the temperaments; Climate and the temperaments; Effects on Dickens of a month at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight; Quotations showing the dependence of the natural mental action of the temperaments on the healthy action of the organs; Return of natural mental action with convalescence; The temperaments and minute structure; Inheritance of disease limited by personal likeness; Importance of such limitation in Life Assurance. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)