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. ...

Sanguine Complexion.

Description.

A Man or Woman in whose Body heat and moi∣sture abounds, is said to be Sanguine of Com∣plexion, such are usually of a middle Stature, strong composed Bodies, Fleshy but not Fat, great Veins, smooth Skins, hot and moist in feeling, their Body is Hairy, if they be Men they have soon Beards, if they be Women it were rediculous to expect it; there is a redness intermingled with white in their Cheeks, their Hair is usually of a blackish brown, yet somtimes flax∣ed, their Appetite is good, their Digestion quick, their Urine yellowish and thick, the Excrements of their Bo∣wels reddish and firm, their Pulse great and full, they dream usually of red things and merry conceits.

Conditions.

As for their Conditions they are merry cheerful Crea∣tures, bounteful, pitiful, merciful, courteous, bold, tru∣sty, given much to the games of Venus, as though they had been an Apprentice seven yeers to the Trade, a lit∣tle thing will make them weep, but so soon as 'tis over, no further grief sticks to their Hearts.

Diet and Exercise fitting.

They need not be very scrupulous in the quality of their Diet, provided they exceed not in quantity, be∣cause the Digestive Vertue is so strong.

Excess in small Beer engendreth clammy and sweet Flegm in such Complexions, which by stopping the pores of the Body, engenders Quotidian Agues, the Chollick and Stone, and pains in the Back.

Inordinate drinking of strong Beer, Ale, and Wine, breeds hot Rhewms Scabs and Itch, St. Anthonies fire, Q••insies, Pleuresies, Inflamations, Feavers, and red Pimples.

Violent Exercise is to be avoided because it inflames the Blood, and breeds one-day Feavers.