Black bile
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Black bile, one of the Four humours is considered cold and dry. It is related to the element earth, and the season of Autumn.
A person whose constitution tended to have a preponderance of black bile had a melancholic disposition, vulnerable to despondency, sleeplessness, and irritability.
Melancholy was a fashionable condition of the Renaissance, particularly in Elizabethan England.
