The castel of helth gathered and made by Syr Thomas Elyot knyghte, out of the chiefe authors of physyke, wherby euery manne may knowe the state of his owne body, the preseruatio[n] of helthe, and how to instructe welle his physytion in syckenes that he be not deceyued

☞ Colour.

• Of inwarde causes.
• Of outwarde causes.

Colour of in∣ward causes

• Of equalitie of humoures, as he that is redde and whyte.
• Of inequalitie of humoures, wherof doo procede, blacke, salowe, paale, or whyte onely.
• Redde,
• Blacke,
  • do betoben do∣miniō of heate.
• Salowe,
• Whyte, colde of fl〈…〉〈…〉.
• Pale, colde of melancholy.
• Redde abundaunce of bloude.
• Salow, chole•• citrine.
• Blarke, melancholye or choler aduste.

Colour of out∣warde causes.

• Of cold or heate, as englysshe menne be whyte, Moriens 〈◊〉〈◊〉 blacke.
• Of thynges accidentalle, as of feare, of anger, of sorowe, or other lyke mocion••.

Colour of heare

• Blacke, eyther of aboundaunce of choler inflamed, or of moche inten∣dynge or abus••yon of bloudde.
• Redde heare of moche heate not a••ust••.
• Gray heares of abundaunce of me∣lanch〈…〉〈…〉.
• 〈…〉〈…〉te heares of the lacke of natu¦rall heare, & by occasyon of fleume pu〈…〉〈…〉fyed.

¶ All the resydue concernyng thinges naturall 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in the Introduction of Joan••icius, and in the lyttell crafte of Galene, I purposely 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ouer for this tyme, forasmoche as it doth requy•••• a r••der hauyng some knowledge in phi∣lo••ophye naturall, or ••••s is 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to harde and t••di∣ous to be vnd••••stande. Moreouer this, whiche I 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 in this fyrste tables, shall be suf∣ficient, to the conseruation of he••the, I meane, with that whiche nowe foloweth in the other Tables.