Of Repletion. CAP. 1.
REpletion is a superfluous aboundance of hu∣mours in the body: and that is in two manner of wise, that is to say, in quantitie and in qua∣litie: in quantitie, as where all the foure hu∣mours are more in aboundance, then be equal in propor∣tion to the body that containeth them, or where one hu∣mour much exceedeth the remnant in quantitie. In qua∣litie, as where the bloud or other humor, is hotter or col∣der, thicker or thinner, then is conuenient vnto the body.
First, where all the humours being superfluously in∣creased, filleth and extendeth the receptories of the bo∣dy, as the stomacke, the veynes, and the bowels, and is most properly called fulnes, in Greeke Plethora, in La∣tine Plenitudo.
The other is, where the body is infarsed either with choler, yellow or blacke, or with fleume, or with watrie humours, and is properly called in Greeke Cacothimia, in Latine Vitiosus succus, in English it may be called cor∣rupt iuyce. I will not here write, the subtil & aboundant definitions and descriptions of Galen in his books de ple∣nitudine, and in his commentaries vpon the aqhorismes of Hippocrates. For it shall here suffice, to shewe the ope∣rations of repletion, good or ill, remitting them which bee curious, and desire a more ample declaration to the most excellent works of Galen, where he may bee satisfi∣ed, if hee bee not determined to repugne against reason. Hippocrates sayth, where meate is receiued much aboue nature, that maketh sicknes, Galen declaring that place sayth: more meat then accordeth with natures measure, is named repletion. And afterward he expounded that word aboue nature, to signifie too much and superfluos∣ly, as who sayth, where the meat is superfluously taken,