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: It traces how "black bile" wasn't always a physical liquid. In early Greek epics like Homer’s, "black" was used to describe dark, raging emotions like anger ( cholos ). This paper argues that ancient doctors later "materialized" these dark metaphors into a literal bodily fluid to fit a scientific four-humor system.

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