The Notion of Personality Traits Being Linked with Body Fluids

question 49

Multiple Choice

The notion of personality traits being linked with body fluids:

• A) was discarded long ago.
• B) still persists in the folk and alternative medicines of many cultures.
• C) originated with the work of Claudius Galen.
• D) was the basis of the germ theory of disease.

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