"Your Sadness Is What I Call Melancholia

question 94

Multiple Choice

"Your sadness is what I call melancholia. It is a problem with your brain, the cure for which is abstinence from sex, rest, and, if necessary, the removal of some of your bad blood." During what era would this advice most likely have been given?

• A) sixteenth-century Paris, France
• B) prehistoric times
• C) ancient Greece
• D) the Dark Ages

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