…realization of the interdependence of mental behavior and of physical structure goes back to great antiquity. It was formulated by Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, who spoke about two main physical types, what he called the phthisic habitus and…

…burly, rather fattish, typical businessman or politician who is going to have the renal cardiac syndrome in later life, which Hippocrates recognized very clearly. And this is still a variety of human being we quite clearly recognize. The phthisic syndrome,…

…still a variety of human being we quite clearly recognize. The phthisic syndrome, The Thysic habitus was a slight mistake. Hippocrates evidently thought that the opposite of this thin, slender type was particularly subject of Thysis or tuberculosis, and there…