Buchanan describes him as, " hasty and passionate, otherwise a good man, skilled in the arts both of peace and war . " James Maitland of Lauderdale, a writer of a later generation, mentions some imperfections of his nature, such as, his " sudden and vehement choler . " Cleutin, Yves de Rubarye, and Bartholomew de Villemore, the Regent's financial controller were criticised for their lack of understanding of the Scots language, class distinctions, and regional jurisdictions.
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The medical regime, being married to a depletive or antiphlogistic physic until the early nineteenth century, Despite a declining intellectual foundation, the humoural-based medical practices of depletion and purgation, later called antiphlogistic ( anti-inflammatory ) therapy, had undergone little change since the time of Galen in the second century AD . Under this tradition, challenged increasingly from the seventeenth century, physical and mental health was dependent upon the maintenance of a proper balance between the four bodily humours of blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile ( choler ).
