An Ancient Roman physician would be most likely to diagnosis a patient with a melancholy (depressed) personality as:
A) having experienced some psychological trauma as a child.
B) an imbalance in the bodily fluids known as humors.
C) caused by physical trauma to the head.
D) having inherited the trait from his or her parents.

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Ancient Roman physicians believed that a person's physical and emotional health was determined by the balance of four bodily fluids, or humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. Melancholy (depression) was believed to be caused by an excess of black bile.

An Ancient Roman Physician Would Be Most Likely to Diagnosis