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TO know the nature of Humors is a thing notonely necessary for Phisitions, but also for Chirurgeons, because there is no disease with matter which ariseth * 1.1 not from some one, or the mixture of more Humors. Which thing Hippocrates understanding, writ, every Creature to be either sicke or well according to the Con∣dition
of the Humors in the body. And certainly all putride feavers proceed from the putrifaction of Humors. Neither doe any acknowledge any other originall or distincti∣on of the differences of Abscesses or Tumors: neither do ulcerated, brokē or otherwise wounded members hope for the restauration of continuity, from other than from the sweet falling downe of humors to the wounded part. Which is the cause that often in the cure of these affects, the Phisitions are necessarily busied in tempering the Blood, that is, bringing to a mediocrity the 4 humors composing the masse of blood, if they at any time offend in quantity, or quality. For whether if any thing abound, or digresse from the wonted temper in any excesse of heat, cold, viscosity, grossenes, thinnes, or any such like quality, none of the accustomed functions will be well performed. For which cause those cheife helpes to preserve and restore health have beene divinely invented; Phelebotomy, or bloodletting which amends the quantity of too much blood; and pur∣ging which corrects and drawes away the vicious quality. But now let us begin to speak * 1.2 of the Humors, taking our beginning from the definition.
An Humor (is called by Phisitions) what thing so ever is Liquide and flowing in the body of living Creatures endued with Blood, & that is either natural, or againstnature. * 1.3 The naturall is so called because it is fit to defend, preserve and sustaine the life of a Creature. Quite different is the nature & reason of that which is against nature. Again the former is either Alimentary, or Excrementitious; The Alimentary which is fit to * 1.4 nourish the body, is that Humor which is contained in the veines and arteries of a man which is tēperate & perfectly wel; & which is understood by the general name of blood which is let out at the opening of a veine. For blood otherwise taken is an Humor of a certaine kind, distinguished by heate and warmnesse from the other Humors compre∣hended together with it, in the whole masse of the blood. Which thing that it may the better be understood, I have thought good in this place to declare the generation of Blood by the efficient and materiall causes, All things which we eate or drink, are the * 1.5 materialls of blood, which things drawne into the bottome of the ventricle by its at∣tractive force, and there detained, are turned by the force of concoction implanted in it, into a substance like to Almond Butter. Which thing although it appeare one and like it selfe, yet it consists of parts of a different nature, which not only the variety of meats, but one & the same meate yeelds of it self. We terme this Chylus (when it is per∣fectly * 1.6 concocted in the stomacke). But the * 1.7 Gate-veine receives it driven from thence into the small guts, and sucked in by the Meseraicke veins, and now having gotten a litle rudiment of Change in the way, carries it to the Liver, where by the blood-making faculty which is proper and naturall to this part, it acquires the absolute and perfect forme of blood. But with that blood at one and the same time and action all the humors are made whether Alimentary or excrementitious. Therefore the * 1.8 blood that it may performe its office, that is, the faculty of nutrition, must necessari∣ly be purged and clensed from the two excrementitious humors. Of which the blad∣der of Gall drawes one which we call Yellow Choler, and the Spleen the other * 1.9 which we terme Melancholy. These two humors are naturall, but not Alimentary, or nourishing, but of another use in the body, as afterwards we will shew more at large. The blood freed from these 2. kinds of excrements is sent by the veines and Arteries into all parts of the body for their nourishment. Which although then it seeme to be of one simple nature, yet notwithstanding it is truly such, that foure dif∣ferent and vnlike substances may be observed in it, as blood properly so named, * 1.10 Phlegme, Choler and Melancholy, not only distinct in colour, but also in taste, effects and qualities. For as Galen notes in his booke De Natura humana, Melancholy is acide or soure, choler bitter, Blood sweet, Phlegme unsavory. But you may know the variety of their effects, both by the different temper of the nourished parts, as also by the various condition of the diseases springing from thence. For therefore such substances ought to be tempered and mixed amongst themselves in a certaine pro∣portion, which remaining, health remaines, but violated, diseases follow. For all ac∣knowledge that an Oëdema is caused by Phlegmatick, a Scirrhus by Melancholike, an Erysipelas by Cholericke, and a Phlegmone by pure and laudable blood. Galen teaches * 1.11 by a familiar example of new wine presently taken from the presse, that these 4 sub∣stances are contained in that one Masse, and mixture of the blood. In which every one
observes 4. distinct Essences; for the flower of the wine working up swims at the top, the dregs fall downe to the bottome, but the crude and watery moisture mixed toge∣ther with the sweet and vinous liquor, is every where diffused through the body of the wine; the flower of the wine represents Choler, which bubling up on the super∣ficies of blood, as it concretes and growes cold, shineth with a golden colour; the dregs Melancholy, which by reason of its heavines ever sinketh downward, as it were the Mudd of the blood; the crude and watery portion Phlegme: for as that crude humor, except it be rebellious in quantity, or stubborne by its quality, there is hope it may be changed into wine, by the naturall heate of the wine; so Phlegme which is * 1.12 blood halfe concocted, may by the force of native heat be changed into good and laudable blood. Which is the cause that nature decreed, or ordained no peculiar place, as to the other 2. humours, whereby it might be severed from the blood; But the true and perfect liquor of the wine represents the pure blood, which is the more laudable and perfect portion of both the humors of the confused Masse. It may easily appeare by the following scheme, of what kind they all are, and also what the distinction of these foure humors may be.
| NATVRE | CONSISTANCE | COLOVR | TASTE | VSE. | |
| Blood is | Of Nature aery, hot and moyst, or ra∣ther tempe∣rate, | Of indifferent con∣sistance, neither too thicke nor too thin, | Of Colour red, rosy or Crim∣son, | Of Taste sweete, | Of such use, that it cheifly serves for the nourishment of the fleshyparts, and caried by the vessels im∣parts heate to the whole body. |
| Phlegme is | Of Nature watery, cold and moist, | Of Consistance liquid, | Of Colour white | Of Taste sweet, or rather un∣savory, for we com∣mend that water which is vnsavory, | Fit to nourish the braine and al the other cold and moist parts, to temper the heate of the blood, and by its slipperines to helpe the moti∣on of the joynts. |
| Choler is | Of Nature fiery, hot and drie, | Of Consistance Thin, | Of Colour yeallow, or pale, | Of Taste bitter, | It provoketh the expulsive faculty of the guts, attenuates the Phlegme clea¦ving to them, but the Alimentary is fit to nourish the parts of like tem∣per with it. |
| Melan∣choly is. | Of Nature earthly, cold and dry. | Of Consistance grosse and muddy, | Of Colour blackish | Of taste acide, soure or biting. | Stirs up the Ap∣petite, nourishes the spleene and all the parts of like temper to it, as the Bones. |
Bloud hath its neerest matter from the better portion of the Chylus: and being be∣gunne to be laboured in the veines, at length gets forme and perfection in the liver; but it hath its remote matter from meates of good digestion and quality, seasonably eaten after moderate exercise; but for that, one age is better than another, and one time of the yeare more convenient than another. For bloud is made more copiously in the Spring, because that season of the yeare comes neerest to the temper of the bloud, by reason of which the bloud is rather to be thought temperate, than hot and moist, for that Galen makes the Spring temperate, and besides, at that time bloud-let∣ting * 1.13 is performed with the best successe: youth is an age very fit for the generation of bloud; or by Galens opinion, rather that part of life, that continues from the 25. to the 35. yeare of our age. Those in whom this humor hath the dominion, are beautified with a fresh and rosie colour, gentle and well natured, pleasant, merry, and facetious. The generation of Phlegme is not by the imbecillity of heat, as some of the ancients thought; who were perswaded that choler was caused by a raging, bloud by a mode∣rate, and phlegme and melancholy, by a remisse heate. But that opinion is full of ma∣nifest errour: for if it be true that the Chylus is laboured and made into bloud in the * 1.14 same part, and by the same fire, that is, the liver; from whence in the same moment of time should proceed that strong and weake heate, seeinge the whole masse of the bloud different in its foure essentiall parts, is perfected and made at the same time, and by the same equall temper of the same part, action, and bloud-making facultie; therefore from whence have we this varietie of humors? From hence, for that those meates by which wee are nourished, enjoy the like condition that our bodies doe, from the foure Elements, and the fouré first qualities; for it is certaine, and wee may often observe in what kind soever they be united or joyned together, they retaine a certain hot portion imitating the Fire, another cold, the water; another dry, the earth, and lastly, another moist like to the Aire. Neither can you name any kinde of nou∣rishment, how cold soever it be, not Lettuce it selfe, in which there is not some fiery force of heate. Therefore it is no marvell, if one and the same heate working upon the same matter of Chylus, varying with so great dissimilitude of substances, doe by its power produce so unlike humors, as from the hot, Choler; from the cold, Phlegme; and of the others, such as their affinity of temper will permit.
There is no cause that any one should thinke that varietie of humors to be caused * 1.15 in us, rather by the diversity of the active heate, than waxe and a flint placed at the same time, and in the same situation of climate and soile, this to melt by the heat of the Sunne, and that scarse to waxe warme. Therefore that diversitie of effects is not to be attributed to the force of the efficient cause, that is, of heate, which is one and of one kinde in all of us; but rather to the materiall cause, seeing it is composed of the conflux, or meeting together of various substances, gives the heate leave to worke, as it were out of its store, which may make and produce from the hotter part thereof Choler, and of the colder, and more rebellious Phlegme. Yet I will not deny but that more Phlegme, or Choler may be bred in one and the same body, according to the quicker, or slower provocation of the heate; yet neverthelesse it is not consequent, that the originall of Choler should be from a more acride, and of Phlegme from a more dull heat in the same man. Every one of us naturally have a simple heate, and of one kinde, which is the worker of diverse operations, not of it selfe, seeing it is alwayes the same, and like it selfe, but by the different fitnesse, pliablenesse, or resi∣stance of the matter on which it workes. Wherefore phlegme is generated in the * 1.16 same moment of time, in the fire of the same part, by the efficiency of the same heate, with the rest of the bloud, of the more cold, liquide, crude, and watery portion of the Chylus. Wherby it comes to passe, that it shewes an expresse figure of a certaine rude or unperfect bloud, for which occasion nature hath made it no peculiar receptacle, but would have it to run friendly with the bloud in the same passages of the veines, that a∣ny necessitiehappening by famin, or indigency, and in defect of better nourishment, it may by a perfecter elaboration quickly assume the forme of bloud. Cold & rude nou∣rishmēt make this humor to abound, principally in winter, and in those which incline to old age; by reason of the similitude which phlegme hath with that season and age. It makes a man drowsie, dull, fat, and swollen up, and hasteneth gray haires. Choler * 1.17
is as it were a certaine heate and fury of humors, which generated in the liver, together with the bloud is carried by the veines and arteries through the whole body. That of it which abounds, is sent, partly into the guts, and partly into the bladder of the gall; or is consumed by transpiration, or sweates; It is somewhat probable that the Arteri∣all bloud is made more thinne, hot, quicke and pallid, than the bloud of the veines, by the commixture of this Alementarie choler. This humor is chiefely bred and expeld in youth, and acrid and bitter meates give matter to it: but great labours of bodie and minde give the occasion. It maketh a man nimble, quicke, ready for all * 1.18 performance, leane, and quicke to anger, and also to concoct meates. The Melan∣cholicke humor, or Melancholy, being the grosser portion of the bloud, is partly sent from the Liver to the Spleene to nourish it, and partly carried by the vessels into the rest of the body, and spent in the nourishment of the parts endued with an earthly drinesse; it is made of meates of grosse juyce, and by the perturbations of the minde, turned to feare and sadnesse. It is augmented in Autumne, and in the first and crude * 1.19 old age; it makes men sad, harsh, constant, froward, envious and fearefull. All men ought to thinke, that such humors are wont to move at set houres of the day, as by a certaine peculiar motion or tide. Therefore the bloud flowes from the ninth houre of * 1.20 the night, to the third houre of the day; then Choler to the ninth of the day; then Melancholy to the third of the night, the rest of the night that remaines, is under the dominion of Phlegme. Manifest examples hereof appeares in the French-Poxe. From the elaborate and absolute masse of the bloud (as we said before) two kindes of humors, as excrements of the second concoction, are commonly and naturally se∣parated, the one more grosse, the other more thinne. This is called either absolutely choler, or with an adjunct, yellow choler. That is called Melancholy; which drawne by the Spleene in a thinner portion, and elaborate by the heate of the Arteries, which in that part are both many and large, becomes nourishment to the part; the remnant thereof is carried by the veiny vessell into the orifice of the ventricle, whereby it may * 1.21 not cause, but whet the appetite, and by its astriction strengthen the actions thereof. But yellow Choler drawne into the bladder of the gall, remaines there so long, till being troublesome, either in quantitie or qualitie, it is excluded into the guts, where∣by it may cast forth the excrements residing in them; the expulsive facultie being provoked by its acrimony, and by its bitternesse kills the wormes that are bred there. This same humor is accustomed to die the urine of a yellow colour. There is another * 1.22 serous humor, which truly is not fit to nourish, but profitable for many other things, which is not an excrement of the second, but of the first concoction. Therefore na∣ture would that mixed with the Chylus, it should come to the Liver, and not be voi∣ded with the excrements, whereby it might alay the grossenesse of the bloud, and serve it for a vehicle; for otherwise the bloud could scarse passe through the capillary veines of the Liver, and passing the simous and gibbous parts thereof, come to the hollow veine. Part of this serous humor separated together with the bloud which serves for the nourishment of the Reines, and straight carried into the bladder, is tur∣ned into that urine which we daily make; the other part therefore carried through all the body together with the bloud, performing the like duty of transportation, is ex∣cluded by sweats into which it degenerates. Besides the forenamed, the Arabians have mentioned foure other humors, which they terme Alimentary and secondary, * 1.23 as being the next matter of nourishment, as those foure the bloud containes, the re∣mote. They have given no name to the first kinde, but imagine it to be that humor, which hangs ready to fall like to little drops in the utmost orifices of the veines. They call the second kinde, * 1.24 Dew; being that humor, which entred already into the sub∣stance of the part, doth moisten it. The third they call by a Barbarous name Cambium, which already put to the part to be nourished, is there fastened. The fourth named Gluten, or Glew, is onely the proper and substance-making humidity of the simular parts, not their substance. The distinction of the degrees of nutrition recited by Galen in his Bookes of Naturall faculties, answer in proportion to this distinction of humors. The first is, that the bloud flow to the part that requires nourishment; then that being there arrived, it may be agglutinated; then lastly, that having lost its former forme of nourishment, it may be assimulated.
Those humors are against nature, which being corrupted, infect the body and the * 1.25 parts in which they are contained by the contagion of their corruption, retaining the names and titles of the humors, from whose perfection and nature they have revol∣ted, they all grow hot by putrifaction, although they were formerly by their owne nature cold. And they are corrupted, either in the veines onely, or within and with∣out the veines; In the veines Bloud and Melancholy; but both without and within the veines, Choler and Phlegme. When bloud is corrupted in its thinner portion, * 1.26 it turnes into choler, when in its thicker, into Melancholy; for the bloud becomes faul∣tie two maner of waies, either by the corruption of its proper substance by putrifactiō, or by admixtion of another substance by infection. The Melancholy humor which is corrupted in the veines, is of three sorts: the 1. is of a Melancholy juice putrifying, and by the force of a strange heate, turned as it were into ashes, by which it becomes adust, acride and biting. The other ariseth from that Choler which resembles the yolkes of egges, which by adustion becomes leeke-coloured, then aeruginous, or of a blewish greene, then red, and lastly blacke, which is the very worst kinde of Melancholy, hot, maligne, eating and exulcerating, and which is never seene or voided with safetie. The third comes from Phlegme putrifying in the veines, which first degenerates into salte Phlegme, but straight by the strength of extraneous heate degenerates into Me∣lancholy.
Phlegme not naturall is bred, either
Choler not naturall is bred, either
The kinds of such choler, are often cast forth by vomit in diseases, the strength of the disease being past; being troublesome to the parts through which they are evacu∣ated, by their bitternesse, acrimony and biting.
I Thinke it manifest, because the matter and generation of flesh is principally from bloud, that a man of a fleshy, dense, and solid habite of body, and full of a sweete and vaporous juice, is of a Sanguine complexion. And the same party hath a flou∣rishing and roasie colour in his face, tempered as with an equall mixture of white and * 1.29 red; of white, by reason of the skinne lying utmost; of red, because of the bloud spred underneath the skinne; for alwayes such as the humor is, such is the colour in the face. In manners hee is courteous, gentle, easie to be spoken to, not altogether * 1.30 estranged from the love of women, of a lovely countenance and smoothe forehead, seldome angry, but taking all things in good part; for as the inclination of humors is, so also is the disposition of manners. But bloud is thought the mildest of all humors; but the strong heate of the inward parts maketh him to eate and drinke freely. Their dreames are pleasant, they are troubled with diseases arising from bloud, as frequent Phlegmons, and many Sanguine pustles breaking through the skinne, much bleeding, and menstruous fluxes. Wherefore they can well endure bloud-letting, and delight in the moderate use of cold and drie things; and lastly, are offended by hot and moist things. They have a great and strong Pulse, and much urine in quantitie, but milde of qualitie, of an indifferent colour and substance.
CHolericke men are of a pale or yellowish colour, of a leane, slender and rough * 1.31 habit of body, with faire veines and large Arteries, and a strong and quicke Pulse: their skinne being touched, feeles hot, dry, hard, rough and harsh, with a pricking and acred exhalation which breathes forth of their whole body. They cast forth much choler by stoole, vomite and urine. They are of a quicke and nimble wit, stout, hardy and sharpe vindicaters of received injuries, liberall even to prodigalitie, * 1.32 and somewhat too desirous of glory. Their sleepe is light, and from which they are quickly waked; their dreames are fiery, burning, quicke and full of furie; they are delighted with meates and drinkes which are somewhat more cold and moist, and are subject to Tertian and burning feavers, the Phrensie, Iaundise, Inflammations, and other cholericke pustules, the Laske, Bloudy fluxe, and bitternesse of the mouth.
THose in whom Phlegme hath the dominion, are of a whitish coloured face, and * 1.33 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 * 1.34 noise, and sometimes the Cholicke.
For much wind is easily caused of such like Phlegmatick excrements wrought upon
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by a small and weake heate, such as Phlegmaticke persons have, which by its naturall lightnesse is diversly carried through the turnings of the guts, and distends and swells them up, and whiles it strives for passage out, it causeth murmurings and noises in the belly, like winde breaking through narrow passages.
THe face of Melancholy persons is swart, their countenance cloudy and often * 1.35 cruell, their aspect is sad and froward; frequent Schirrhous, or hard swellings, tumors of the spleene, Haemorroids, Varices (or swollen veines) Quartaine feavers, whe∣ther continuall or intermitting, Quintaine, Sextaine, and Septimane feavours; and to conclude, all such wandering feavers or agues set upon them. But when it happens the Melancholy humor is sharpened, either by adustion, or commixture of Choler, then Tetters, the blacke Morphew, the Cancer simple and ulcerated, the Leprous and filthy scabbe, sending forth certaine scaly and branlike excrescenses, (being vul∣garly called Saint Manis his evill) and the Leprosie it selfe invades them: They have small veines and arteries, because coldnesse hath dominion over them, whose proper∣tie is to straiten, as the qualitie of heate is to dilate. But if at any time their veines * 1.36 seeme bigge, that largenesse is not by reason of the laudable bloud, contained in them, but from much windinesse; by occasion whereof it is somewhat difficult to let them bloud; not onely because that when the veine is opened, the bloud flowes slowly forth, by reason of the cold slownesse of the humors; but much the rather, for that the veine doth not receive the impression of the Lancet, sliding this way and that way, by reason of the windinesse contained in it, and because that the harsh drinesse of the upper skinne, resists the edge of the instrument. Their bodies seeme cold and hard to the touch, and they are troubled with terrible dreames, for they are observed to seeme * 1.37 to see in the night Devils, Serpents, darke dens and caves, sepulchers, dead corpses, and many other such things full of horror, by reason of a blacke vapour, deversly moving and disturbing the Braine, which also wee see happens to those, * 1.38 who feare the water, by reason of the biting of a mad dogge. You shall finde them froward, frau∣dulent, * 1.39 parsimonious, and covetous, even to basenesse, slow speakers, fearefull, sad, complainers, carefull, ingenious, lovers of solitarinesse, man-haters, ob∣stinate maintainers of opinions once conceived, slow to anger, but angered not be pacified. But when Melancholy hath exceeded natures and its owne bounds, then by reason of putrefaction and inflammation all things appeare full of extreme fury and madnesse, so that they often cast themselves headlong downe from some high place, or are otherwise guilty of their owne death, with feare of which notwithstanding they are terrified.
But we must note that changes of the native temperament, doe often happen in the course of a mans life, so that hee which a while agone was Sanguine, may now bee * 1.40 Cholericke, Melancholick, or Phlegmatick; not truly by the changing of the bloud into such humors, but by the mutation of Diet, and the course or vocation of life. For none of a Sanguine complexion but will prove Cholericke if he eate hot and drie meates, * 1.41 (as all like things are cherished and preserved by the use of their like, and contraries are destroyed by their contraries) and weary his body by violent exercises, and con∣tinuall labours; and if there be a suppression of Cholericke excrements, which be∣fore did freely flow, either by nature, or art. But whosoever feeds upon meates ge∣nerating * 1.42 grosse bloud, as Beefe, Venison, Hare, old Cheese, and all salt meates, he without all doubt sliding from his nature, will fall into a Melancholy temper; especi∣ally if to that manner of diet, he shall have a vocation full of cares, turmoiles, miseries, strong and much study, carefull thoughts and feares; and also if he sit much, wanting exercise, for so the inward heate as it were defrauded of its nourishment, faints, and growes dull, whereupon grosse and drossie humors abound in the body. To this al∣so the cold and drie condition of the place, in which we live, doth conduce, and the suppression of the Malancholy humor accustomed to be evacuated by the Haemor∣rhoides, courses, and stooles.
But he acquires a Phlegmaricke temper whosoever useth cold & moist nourishment, * 1.43
much feeding, who before the former meate is gone out of the belly, shall stuffe his paunch with more, who presently after meate runs into violent exercises, who inhabite cold and moist places, who leade their life at ease in all idlenesse; and lastly, who suffer a suppression of the Phlegmaticke humour accustomely evacuated by vomite, cough, or blowing the nose, or any other way either by nature or arte. Certainely it is very convenient to know these things, that we may discerne if any at the present be Phleg∣maticke, Melancholicke or of any other temper, whether he be such by nature, or ne∣c••ss••••y. Having declared those things which concerne the nature of Temperaments, and deferred the description of the parts of the body to our Anatomy, we will be∣gin to speake of the faculties governing this our life, when first we shall have showen by a practicall demonstration of examples, the use and certainty of the aforesaid rules of Temperaments.
The know∣ledge of the Humors is necessary. Lib. de natura Hum.
The helpes of Health.
What an humor is.
The manifold division of Humors.
The materiall and efficient causes of blood
What the Chy∣lus •…•…s.
Vena porta
Where the blood is per∣fected.
The receptacles of Choler and Melancholy.
Foure unlike Humors in the Bloody.
A comparison of blood and novv wine.
Phlegme is blood halfe concocted. Why it hath no proper re∣ceptacle.
Lib. 1. de temp.
One and the same heate is the efficient cause of all humors at the same time.
The heate of the Sunne a∣lone doth melt waxe and harden clay.
The divers condition of the matter a∣lone, is the cause of vari∣etie.
The effects of Phlegme.
The effects of Choler.
The effects of Melancho∣ly.
What moti∣ons are in each quarter of the body.
The Melan∣choly humor doth not cause, but whet the ap∣petite.
A Serous or wheyish hu∣mor.
Secundary humors.
Ro••.
Humors a∣gainst nature.
Into what humors the bloud when it corrupts doth degene∣nerate. The Melan∣choly humor corrupted, is of three kinds.
Albuminca.
Vitellina.
Such as the humor is, such is the colour.
The manners and diseases of Sanguine persons.
Cholericke are not com∣monly fat.
The manners and diseases, of Cholericke persons.
The manners and diseases of Phlegma∣ticke persons,
From whence ••oise, or rum∣bling in the belly pro∣ceedes
Diseases fami∣liar to Melan∣choly persons.
From or by what their veines are swollen.
Their dreames
Hydrophobi.
Their man∣ners.
From whence the change of the native temper.
How one may become chole∣ricke.
How melan∣cholick.
How Pleg∣matick••.