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NOwe to gyue you knowlege whan that any man is hole or sycke / or disposed in any wy∣se to syckenes? wherfore thre thyng{is} there ben: by the which Ptholomeus put knowlege whan a man is hole or sycke / or disposed to syckenes. If he be hole / to maynteyne & kepe hym. If he be sycke to seke remedye to hele hym. If he be disposed
to syckenes / to kepe hym that he falle nat ther in. And for eche of the thre sayde thynges / the sayd Ptholomeus put dyuers sygnes. Helthe properly attemperaunce / accorde / and equaly¦te of the .iiii. qualytes of man / which ben hote colde / drye / & moyste. The whiche whan they ben well tempred and egall that the one sur∣mount nat the other / than the body of man is hole. But whan they ben vnegal and mysse tempred / and the one hath power one ouer an other / than a man is sycke or disposed to sycke¦nes / and they ben the qualytes that the body holdeth of the clementes that they ben made & composed of / that is to saye of the fyre hete / of the water colde / of the ayre moyste / and of the erthe drye. The whiche qualytes / whan one is disordred from the other / than the body is sycke. And if that one distroye all the other / than the body dyeth / and the soule departeth.