Galen's art of physick ... translated into English, and largely commented on : together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their conditions, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...

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Galen's art of physick ... translated into English, and largely commented on : together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their conditions, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...
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Galen.
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London :: Printed by Peter Cole ...,
1652.
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Medicine, Greek and Roman.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Flegmatick-Chollerick Complexion.
Description.

SUch are tall of stature but not so big nor yet so fat as Flegmatick, their Bodies are somthing hairy and they pretty soon have Beards, they have usually Hair of a Chestnut colour, not curling, and soft, their Fa∣ces of a tauny red, full of Freckles, their Appetite and Digestion is indifferent, as being pretty well met; a moderate and pretty full Pulse, their Urine subcitrine and mean in respect of thickness, the Excrements of their Belly of a pale yellow and thick, they usually dream of swimming in the Water, Snow, and Rain.

Conditions.

They are not such drowsie, lazy, leepy Creatures as Flegmatick folks are, but are nimbler, bolder, and kin∣der, merrier, and quicker witted.

Diet and Exercise convenient.

Although they may be a little bolder with their food than Flegmatick may, yet is digestion in them none of the strongest, and excess in meat fills their Bodies with Choller, and punisheth their Carcasses with Chollerick Diseases.

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Excess of Drink spoils their Digestion, and weakens Nature, but moderate Exercise refresheth it.

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