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Personal Health Rhetorical Analysis

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Let’s begin with our speech taking us to Western Europe. In Europe a lot of the doctors used liquids to indicate your personal health, these liquids were known as the four humours. The four humours that came from your body would be yellow bile, bile not being the liquid in your kidney used to digest food as it is known today, but urine or vomit, black bile, excrement, blood, and phlegm, basically mucus. You would desire a balance of all of the four humours, if there was an imbalance with them they would be responsible for your sickness. Often having too much blood would be stated as the reason to the cause of your disease and ailment, so usually a doctor would administer leeches to you or employ the process of bloodletting to achieve a

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