About
One of the four humors in ancient and medieval medicine, associated with the element of earth and the melancholic temperament. In esoteric thought, it was often linked to the planet Saturn and the intellectual depth of creative genius.
Connections
Other entities that appear in the same books as Black bile.
Appears in 182 Books
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Jan Baptist van Helmont
Various (Greek Hermetic texts)
Condé, Johannes Baptista de
Poliziano, Angelo
Condé, Johannes Baptista de
Macer Floridus
Macer Floridus (Odo of Meung)
Condé, Johannes Baptista de
Hildegard of Bingen
Ibn al-Baytar
Poliziano, Angelo
Johannes ab Indagine
Lynn Thorndike
Johannes de Rupescissa
Angelo Poliziano
Pietro Andrea Mattioli
Niccolò Leoniceno (translator); Galen
Aristotle; Theodore Gaza
Hippocrates
Andrea Cesalpino
Avicenna; Gerard of Cremona
Pliny the Elder
Moses ibn Tibbon
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Albumasar; Aristotle; Al-Farabi
Girolamo Cardano
Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
Antonio Benivieni
Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
Gabriel Naudé
Pseudo-Aristotle
Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Bacon, Roger
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Giovanni Pontano
Pietro Andrea Mattioli
Thomas Willis
Pietro Andrea Mattioli
Petraeus, Henricus
Philo of Alexandria; Sigismundus Gelenius (trans.)
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Leonhart Fuchs
Aristotle
Flavius Josephus (ed. Hudson & Havercampus)
Hermes Trismegistus
Anonymous
Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Portal, Paulus
al-Samri/al-Sawi al-Isra'ili, Abu Sa'd ibn Abi al-Surur (active 13th century)
Various (Hippocrates, Galen, Caelius Aurelianus, Gargilius Martialis)
Constantinus Africanus
Aetius Amidenus
Julius Ludwig Ideler
John Actuarius
Hippocrates
Galen; Hippocrates
Hippocrates
Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
Alexander of Tralles
Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Henri II Estienne (ed.)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Alexander of Tralles
Pierre Bunel (ed. Henri II Estienne)
Dioscorides Pedanius
Firmicus Maternus
Abu Bakr al-Razi (Rhazes)
Hippocrates
Aristophanes
Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
Andrea Cesalpino
Hermes Trismegistus, Albumasar, Messahallah, Thebit ben Corat, et al.
Johann Weyer
Various (Bede, Pseudo-Ptolemy, Masha'allah, Avicenna)
Giovan Battista Codronchi
Girolamo Cardano
Robert Burton
Augustin Calmet
Zakariyya al-Qazvini
Theophylact Simocatta; George Sphrantzes; George of Trebizond
Cardano, Girolamo
Holstein, Lucas
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Mylius, Johann Daniel
Hippocrates; A. Foesius (ed.)
Niccolò Leoniceno (translator); Galen
Pseudo-Aristotle
Angelo Poliziano
Pietro Andrea Mattioli
Aristotle; Johannes Argyropoulos
Plato / Marsilio Ficino
Alexander of Tralles
Avicenna
al-Samri/al-Sawi al-Isra'ili, Abu Sa'd ibn Abi al-Surur (active 13th century)
Angelo Poliziano
Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto
Cardano, Girolamo
Conrad Gessner
Bernardino Ramazzini
Pierre Bunel (ed. Henri II Estienne)
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Pierio Valeriano
Philo of Alexandria; Sigismundus Gelenius (trans.)
Giovanni Pontano
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Isaac Beeckman
Various (Galen, Hippocrates, et al.)
Marsilio Ficino
Dominicus Chabrae
Aristotle
Hippocrates
Iamblichus / Hermes Trismegistus / Porphyry
Johann Weyer
Paul of Aegina
Giambattista Della Porta