Melancholy facts for kids
Melancholia is a condition of depression and bodily complaints. Melancholia is a concept from ancient or pre-modern medicine. Melancholy was one of the four temperaments matching the four humours.
Despite there being a variety of mental and physical symptoms to this condition, in the 20th century the term became attached almost exclusively to depression and the term is currently used as a subtype for major depression known as melancholic depression.
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