The Signes of a Phlegmaticke Person.
THose in whom Phlegme hath the dominion, are of a whitish coloured face, and * 1.1 sometimes livide and swollen, with their body fat, soft and cold to touch.
They are molested with Phlegmaticke diseases, as oedematous tumors, the Dropsie, Quotidians feavers, falling away of the haires, and catarrhes falling downe upon the Lungs, and the Aspera Arteria, or Weason; they are of a slow capacitie, dull, sloth∣full, drousie, they doe dreame of raines, snowes, floods, swimming, and such like, that they often imagine themselves overwhelmed with waters; they vomite up much waterie, and Phlegmaticke matter, or otherwise spit and evacuate it, and have a soft and moist tongue.
And they are troubled with a dogge-like hunger, if it at any time should happen that their insipide Phlegme become acide; and they are slow of digestion, by rea∣son of which they have great store of cold and Phlegmaticke humors, which if they be carried downe into the windings of the cholicke-gut, they cause murmuring and * 1.2 noise, and sometimes the Cholicke.
For much wind is easily caused of such like Phlegmatick excrements wrought upon