and Galen do affirm. So that if the Ele∣ments enter into the composition of natural things, especially as the principal materials whereof they consist, they must needs appear in the dissolution of them. This dissolution is either natural or artificial. In the natural disso∣lution of all things, Hypocrates observes three distinct substances, calidum, humidum sive flui∣dum, & siccum five solidum, according to the three Elements or principles where of they are framed. His instance is principally man, but he ••ffirms it to hold in other animate and inanimate bodies. These Elements he termeth continen∣••••a, contenta & impetum facientia, as Galen ex∣bounds it. Those which he calls continentia, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 bones, nerves, veins, arteries, and from ••hence, muscles, &c. Contenta are humida, or humores, blood; flegme, choller, melancholy, which after death, are cold, and congeal, being beated as Galen saith, from the heart, in living bodies: Impetum facientia, are spirits animal, vital and natural.
These three Elements, Galen acknowledgeth to be the nearest, but the other which are more remote, to be most universal. Bat Hypocrates ••aith that heat and cold, &c. are very powerless Elements, and that sharp, bitter, sweet, &c. are more powerfull, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. So that these are the three Elements whereof ••ll things do consist, and into which they are ••aturally resolved: and these do seem to re∣••emble the four Elements, but are not the same. For heat may resemble fire, although this heat be ••••ocured by motion in every thing whilest it