ATRABILIS, in the ancient medicine, black or adust bile. See BILE and ADUST.
Atrabilis was one of the great humours of the ancient physicians; whence arose the atrabilary, one of their temperaments; answering to what we call melancholy. See HUMOUR, TEMPERAMENT, MELANCHOLY, etc.
ATRABILIS
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