Health Care of Temperaments and Constitutional Defects

Contents: I. The temperaments : 1. The ancient doctrine of temperaments. 2. Modern views and classifications of temperaments. 3. The sanguine temperament. 4. The lymphatic temperament. 5. The bilious temperament. 6. The nervous temperament. II. The constitutional defects or diatheses : 7. The constitutional defects or diatheses. 8. The rheumatic diatheses. 9. The catarrhal diathesis. 10. The tubercular or consumptive diathesis. 11. The neurotic or neuropathic diathesis.

"In nature no two things, however allied in origin and structure, resemble each other perfectly. It is a matter of daily observation that scarcely two persons can be found, not even twins, who are exactly alike in body and mind, so that they can’t be distinguished from each other. In the words of the well known French physiologist "We give the of temperaments to certain physical and moral differences in men, which depend on the various proportions and relations among the parts that make up their organisation, as well as, upon different degrees in the relative energy of certain organs." (jacket)