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In the Hippocratic text entitled "On Diseases", they were described as phlegm, blood, bile and water.  Phlegm was believed to arise in the head, blood in the heart, bile in the gallbladder, and water in the spleen.  Subsequently, water was deleted and replaced by a second variety of bile, known as black bile.