The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters.

CHAP. VI. Of Humors.

TO know the nature of Humors, is a thing not only necessary for Physitians,* 1.1 but also for Chi∣rurgeons, because there is no disease with matter which ariseth not from some one, or the mixture of more Humors. Which thing Hippocrates understanding, writ, every Creature to be either sick or well according to the condition of the Humors in the body.* 1.2 And certainly all putrid fea∣vers proceed from the putrefaction of Humors. Neither do any acknowledg any other original or distinction of the differences of Abscesses or Tumors: neither do ulcerated, broken, or other∣wise wounded members hope for the restauration of continuity, from other than from the sweet falling down of Humors to the wounded part. Which is the cause that often in the cure of these affects, the Physitians are necessarily busied in tempering the blood, that is, bringing to a medio∣crity the four Humors composing the mass of blood, if they at any time offend in quantity, or qua∣lity. For whether if any thing abound or digress from the wonted temper in any excess of heat, cold, viscosity, grosness, thinness, or any such like quality, none of the accustomed functions will be well performed.* 1.3 For which cause those chief helps to preserve and restore health have been di∣vinely invented; Phlebotomie, or blood-letting, which amends the quantity of too much bloud; and Purging, which corrects and draws away the vicious quality. But now let us begin to speak of the Humors, taking our beginning from the Definition.

An Humor is called (by Physitians) what thing soeuer is liquid and flowing in the body of li∣ving Creatures endued with Blood: and that is either natural, or against nature.* 1.4 The natural is so called because it is fit to defend, preserve, and sustain the life of a Creature.* 1.5 Quite different is the nature and reason of that which is against nature. Again, the former is either Alimentary or Excrementitious: The Alimentary which is fit to nourish the body, is that Humor which is con∣tained in the veins and arteries of a man which is temperate and perfectly well; and which is un∣derstood by the general name of blood, which is let out at the opening of a vein. For Blood other∣wise taken, is an Humor of a certain kind, distinguished by heat and warmness from the other Hu∣mors comprehended together with it, in the whole mass of the blood. Which thing, that it may the better be understood, I have thought good in this place to declare the generation of Blood by the efficient and material causes. All things which we eat or drink, are the materials of Blood;* 1.6 which things drawn into the bottom of the Ventricle by its attractive force, and there detained, are turned by the force of concoction implanted in it, into a substance like to Almond-butter. Which thing, although it appear one and like it self, yet it consists of parts of a different nature, which not only the variety of meats, but one and the same meats yields of it self. We term this Chylus,* 1.7 (when it is perfectly concocted in the stomach.) But the* 1.8 Gate-vein receives it driven from thence into the small Guts, and sucked in by the Meseraick-veins, and now having gotten a little rudiment of change in the way, carries it to the Liver, where by the Blood-making faculty, which is proper and natural to this part, it acquires the absolute and perfect form of Blood. But with that Blood,* 1.9 at one and the same time and action all the Humors are made, whether alimentary or excremen∣titious. Therefore the Blood, that it may perform its Office, that is, the faculty of nutrition, must necessarily be purged and cleansed from the two excrementitious Humors: of which the blad∣der of Gall draws one, which we call yellow Choler; and the Spleen the other, which we term Melancholy. These two Humors are natural but not alimentary or nourishing, but of another use in the body, as afterwards we will shew more at large. The Blood freed from these two kinds of Excrements, is sent by the veins and arteries into all parts of the body for their nourishment.

Which although then it seem to be of one simple nature,* 1.10 yet notwithstanding it is truly such, that four different and unlike substances may be observed in it, as, Blood, properly so named; Phlegm, Choler, and Melancholy, not only distinct in colour, but also in taste, effects, and qualities. For, as Galen notes in his Book de Natura humana, Melancholy is acide or sour, Choler bitter, Blood sweet, Phlegm unsavoury. But you may know the variety of their effects, both by the different temper of the nourished parts, as also by the various condition of the diseases springing from thence. For therefore such substances ought to be tempered and mixed amongst themselves in a certain proportion; which remaining, health remains; but violated, diseases follow. For all ac∣knowledg,* 1.11 that an Oedema is caused by Phlegmatick; a Scirrhus, by Melancholick; an Erysipelas, by Cholerick; and a Phlegmone, by pure and laudable blood. Galen teaches by a familiar example of new wine presently taken from the Press, that these four substances are contained in that one mass and mixture of the blood. In which every one observes four distinct Essences; for the flower of the wine working up, swims at the top, the dregs fall down to the bottom, but the crude and watery moisture, mixed together with the sweet and vinous liquor, is every where diffused through the body of the wine: the flower of the wine, represents Choler, which bubbling up on the superficies of blood, as it concretes and grows cold, shineth with a golden colour; the dregs, Melancholy, which by reason of its heaviness ever sinketh downward, as it were, the mud of the blood; the crude and watery portion, Phlegm: for as that crude humor, except it be rebellious in quantity,* 1.12 or stubborn by its quality, there is hope it may be changed into Wine, by the natural heat of the Wine; so Phlegm, which is blood half concocted, may by the force of native heat be changed into good and laudable blood. Which is the cause that nature decreed or ordained no peculiar place,* 1.13 as to the other two humors, whereby it might be severed from the blood: But the true and perfect liquor of the wine represents the pure blood, which is the more laudable and per∣fect portion of both humors of the confused mass. It may easily appear by the following Scheme, of what kind they all are, and also what the distinction of these four Humors may be.

	NATURE.	CONSISTENCE.	COLOUR.	TASTE.	USE.
Blood is	Of Nature airy, hot and moist, or rather tem∣perate.	Of indifferent con∣sistence, neither too thick nor too thin.	Of Colour, red rosie or crim∣son.	Of Taste sweet.	Of such use, that it chiefly serves for the nourishment of the fleshy parts, and carryed by the vessels im∣parts heat to the whole body.
Phlegm is	Of Nature wa∣tery, cold and moist.	Of Consistence, liquid.	Of Colour, white.	Of Taste, sweet, or rather un∣savory; for we com∣mend that water which is unsavory.	Fit to nourish the brain, and all the other cold and moist parts, to temper the heat of the blood, and by its slipperiness to help the mo∣tion of the joynts.
Choler is	Of Nature fiery, hot and dry.	Of Consistence, thin.	Of Colour yel∣low or pale.	Of Taste, bitter.	It provoketh the expulsive faculty of the guts, atte∣nuates the Phlegm clea∣ving to them, but the Alimentary is fit to nou∣rish the parts of like tem∣per with it.
Melan∣choly is	Of Nature earthly, cold, and dry.	Of Consistence, gross and muddy.	Of Colour, blackish.	Of Taste, acide, sour or biting.	Stirs up the Appetite, nou∣rishes the Spleen, and all the parts of like temper to it, as the bones.

Blood hath its nearest matter from the better portion of the Chylus: and being begun to be la∣boured in the veins, at length gets form and perfection in the Liver; but it hath its remote matter from meats of good digestion and quality, seasonably eaten after moderate exercise; but for that, one age is better than another, and one time of the year more convenient than another. For blood is made more copiously in the Spring, because that season of the year comes nearest to the temper of the bloud, by reason of which the blood is rather to be thought temperate, than hot or moist; for that Galen makes the Spring temperate, and besides, at that time blood-letting is performed with the best success:* 1.14 Youth is an age very fit for the generation of blood; or, by Galens opinion, ra∣ther that part of life that continues from the 25, to the 35 year of our age. Those in whom this Humor hath the dominion, are beautified with a fresh and rosie colour, gentle, and wel-natured, pleasant, merry, and facetious. The generation of Phlegm is not by the imbecillity of heat, as some of the Ancients thought; who were perswaded that Choler was caused by a raging, Blood by a moderate, and Phlegm and Melancholy by a remiss heat. But that opinion is full of manifest

error: for if it be true, that the Chylus is laboured and made into blood in the same part,* 1.15 and by the same fire, that is, the Liver; from whence in the same moment of time should proceed that strong and weak heat, seeing the whole mass of the blood, different in its four essential parts, is perfected and made at the same time, and by the same equal temper of the same part, action, and blood-making faculty; therefore from whence have we this variety of Humors? From hence; for that those meats by which we are nourished, enjoy the like condition that our bodies do, from the four Elements, and the four first Qualities: for it is certain, and we may often observe, In what kind soever they be united or joyned together, they retain a certain hot portion imitating the fire; another cold, the water; another dry, the earth; and lastly, another moist like to the air. Neither can you name any kind of nourishment; how cold soever it be, not Lettuce it self, in which there is not some fiery force of heat. Therefore it is no marvail, if one and the same heat working upon the same matter of Chylus, varying with so great dissimilitude of substances; do by its power produce so unlike humors, as from the hot, Choler; from the cold, Phlegm; and of the others, such as their affinity of temper will permit.

There is no cause that any one should think that variety of humors to be caused in us,* 1.16 rather by the diversity of the active heat, than wax and a flint placed at the same time, and in the same situ∣ation of climat and soil, this to melt by the heat of the Sun, and that scarse to wax warm. There∣fore that diversity of effects is not to be attributed to the force of the efficient cause, that is, of Heat, which is one, and of one kind in all of us; but rather to the material cause, seeing it is com∣posed of the conflux, or meeting together of various substances, gives the heat leave to work, as it were out of its store, which may make and produce from the hotter part thereof Choler; and of the colder and more rebellious, Phlegm. Yet I will not deny, but that more Phlegm, or Choler may be bred in one and the same body, according to the quicker; or slower provocation of the heat; yet nevertheless it is not consequent, that the Original of Choler should be from a more acide, and of Phlegm from a more dull heat in the same man. Every one of us naturally have a simple heat, and of one kind, which is the worker of divers operations, not of it self, seeing it is always the same, and like it self, but by the different fitness, pliableness, or resistance of the mat∣ter on which it works. Wherefore Phlegm is generated in the same moment of time,* 1.17 in the fire of the same part, by the efficiency of the same heat, with the rest of the blood, of the more cold, liquid, crude, and watery portion of the Chylus. Whereby it comes to pass, that it shews an express figure of a certain rude or unperfect blood, for which occasion nature hath made it no peculiar receptacle, but would have it to run friendly with the blood in the same passages of the veins, that any necessity hapning by famin, or indigency, and in defect of better nourishment, it may by a perfecter elaboration quickly assume the form of blood: Cold and rude nourishment make this humor to abound principally in Winter, and in those which incline to old-age, by rea∣son of the similitude which Phlegm hath with that season and age. It makes a man drowsie, dul, fat,* 1.18 swollen up, and hastneth gray-hairs. Choler is as it were, a certain heat and fury of humors, which generated in the Liver, together with the blood, is caryed by the veins and arteries through the whole body. That of it which abounds, is sent, partly into the guts, and partly into the bladder of the gall, or is consumed by transpiration, or sweats; It is somewhat probable that the arterial blood is made more thin, hot, quick, and pallid, than the blood of the Veins, by the commixture of this Alimentary Choler. This Humor is chiefly bred and expel'd in youth, and acid and bit∣ter meats give matter to it: but great labours of body and mind give the occasion. It maketh a man nimble, quick, ready for all performance, lean, and quick to anger, and also to concoct meats.* 1.19 The melancholick humor, or Melancholy, being the grosser portion of the blood, is partly sent from the Liver to the Spleen to nourish it, and partly carryed by the vessels into the rest of the body, and spent in the nourishment of the parts endued with an earthly dryness; it is made of meats of gross juyce, and by the perturbations of the mind, turned to fear and sadness.* 1.20 It is aug∣mented in Autumn, and in the first and crude Old-age; it makes men sad, harsh, constant, froward, envious and fearful. All men ought to think, that such Humors are wont to move at set hours of the day, as by a certain peculiar motion or tide, Therefore the blood flows from the ninth hour of the night, to the third hour of the day; then Choler to the ninth of the day;* 1.21 then Melancho∣ly to the third of the night; the rest of the night that remains, is under the dominion of Phlegm. Manifest examples hereof appears in the French-Pox. From the elaborate and absolute mass of the blood, (as we said before) two kind of Humors, as excrements of the second concoction, are commonly and naturally separated, the one more gross, the other more thin. This is called either absolutely Choler, or with an adjunct, yellow Choler. That is called Melancholy, which drawn by the Spleen in a thinner portion, and elaborate by the heat of the Arteries, which in that part are both many and large, becomes nourishment to the part; the remnant thereof is carryed by the veiny Vessel into the orifice of the ventricle, whereby it may not cause but whet the appetite, and by its astriction strengthen the actions thereof. But yellow Choler drawn into the bladder of the gall, remains there so long, till being troublesome; either in quantity or quality,* 1.22 it is ex∣cluded into the guts, whereby it may cast forth the excrements residing in them; the expulsive faculty being provoked by its acrimony, and by its bitterness kills the worms that are bred there. This same Humor is accustomed to die the urine of a yellow colour. There is another serous Hu∣mor, which is not fit to nourish but profitable for many other things, which is not an excrement of the second, but of the first concoction. Therefore, nature would that mixed with the Chylus,* 1.23 it should come to the Liver, and not be voided with the excrements, whereby it might allay the

grosness of the blood, and serve it for a vehicle; for otherwise the blood could scarse pass through the capillary veins of the Liver, and passing the simous and gibbous parts thereof, come to the hollow vein. Part of this serous humour, separated together with the blood which serves for the nourishment of the Reins, and straight carried into the bladder, is turned into that urine which we daily make; the other part thereof, carried through all the body together with the blood, performing the like duty of transportation, is excluded by sweats into which it degenerates. Besides the forenamed, the Arabians have mentioned four other humors, which they term Ali∣mentary and secondary,* 1.24 as being the next matter of nourishment, as those four the blood con∣tains, the remote. They have given no name to the first kind, but imagin it to be that humour, which hangs ready to fall like to little drops in the utmost orifices of the veins. They call the second kind,* 1.25 Dew; being that humour, which, entred already into the substance of the part, doth moisten it. The third they call by a barbarous name, Cambium, which, already put to the part to be nourished, is there fastned. The fourth named Gluten, or Glew, is only the proper and substance-making humidity of the similar parts, not their substance. The distinction of the degrees of nutrition recited by Galen in his books of Natural faculties, answer in proportion to this distinction of humours. The first is, that the blood flow to the part that requires nou∣rishment; then that being there arrived, it may be agglutinated; then lastly, that having lost its former form of nourishment, it may be assimilated.

* 1.26Those humours are against nature, which being corrupted, infect the body and the parts in which they are contained by the contagion of their corruption, retaining the names and titles of the humours, from whose perfection and nature they have revolted, they all grow hot by pu∣trefaction, although they were formerly by their own nature cold. And they are corrupted, either in the veins only, or within and without the veins; In the veins Blood and Melancholy; but,* 1.27 both without and within the veins, Choler and Phlegm. When blood is corrupted in its thin∣ner portion, it turns into Choler, when in its thicker, into Melancholy; for the Blood becomes faulty two manner of wayes, either by the corruption of its proper substance by putrefaction, or by admixtion of another substance by infection. The Melancholy humor which is corrupted in the veins,* 1.28 is of three sorts: The first is of a Melancholy juice putrefying, and by the force of a strange heat, turned, as it were, into ashes, by which it becomes adust, acid and biting. The other ariseth from that Choler which resembles the yolks of eggs, which by adustion becomes leek-coloured, then aeruginous, or of a blewish green, then red, and lastly black, which is the very worst kind of Melancholy, hot, malign, eating, and exulcerating, and which is never seen or voided with safety. The third comes from Phlegm putrefying in the veins, which first dege∣nerates into salt Phlegm, but straight by the strength of extraneous heat degenerates into Me∣lancholy.

Phlegm not naturall is bred, either

• In the Veins, and is either
  • Acide and very crude, as which hath had none or very little impression of heat, but that which it first had in the stomach.
  • Salt, which is bred by the sweet, putrefying and adust, or mixture of adust and salt particles.
• Or without the Veins, & is of four sorts; either
  • Waterish, as is that thin moisture which distils from the the brain by the nostrils.
  • Mucous, as when that waterish is thickned into filth by the help of some accidental or small heat.
  • Glassie, or* 1.29 Albuminous, resembling molten glass, or rather the white of an egg, and is most cold.
  • Gypsea, or Plaister-like, which is concrete into the hardness and form of chalk, as you may see in the joints of the fingers in a knotty gout, or in inveterate distilla∣tions upon the Lungs.

Choler not naturall is bred; either

• In the Veins, as the* 1.30 Vitelline (like in consistence to the yolk of a raw egg) which the acrimony of strange heat breeds of yellow Choler, which same, in diseases altogether deadly, degenerates into green, aeruginous, & lastly into a blue, or colour like that which is dried by woad.
• Or in the ca∣pacity of the upper belly, as the ven∣tricle, and this is of five kinds:
  • The first is called Porracea, or leek-coloured, resem∣bling the juice of a leek in greenness.
  • The second aeruginosa, or aeruginous, like in colour to verdigrease.
  • The third blewish, or woad-coloured, like the colour died by woad.
  • The fourth red, differing in this from blood, whose colour it imitates, that it never commeth into knots, or clods like blood.
  • The fifth very red, generated by the excess of the for∣mer, which causeth burning feavers.

The Kinds of such Choler, are often cast forth by vomit in diseases, the strength of the disease being past; being troublesome to the parts through which they are evacuated, by their bitter∣ness, acrimony, and biting.

The signes of a Sanguine Person.

I Think it manifest, because the matter and generation of flesh is principally from blood, that a man of a fleshy, dense, and solid habit of body, and full of a sweet and vaporous juice, is of a Sanguine complexion. And the same party hath a flourishing and rosie colour in his face, tem∣pered with an equal mixture of white and red; of white, by reason of the skin lying utmost;* 1.31 of red, because of the blood spread underneath the skin: for always such as the humor is, such is the colour in the face. In manners, he is curious, gentle, easie to be spoken to, not altogether estranged from the love of women, of a lovely countenance and smooth forehead, seldom angry,* 1.32 but taking all things in good part; for as the inclination of humors is, so also is the disposition of manners. But blood is thought the mildest of all humors; but the strong heat of the inward parts maketh him to eat and drink freely. Their dreams are pleasant, they are troubled with di∣seases arising from blood, as frequent Phlegmons, and many sanguine pustles breaking through the skin, much bleeding, and menstruous fluxes. Wherefore they can well endure blod-letting, and delight in the moderate use of cold and dry things; and lastly, are offended by hot and moist things. They have a great and strong Pulse, and much urine in quantity, but milde of quality, of an indifferent colour and substance.

The signes of a Cholerick Person.

CHolerick men are of a pale or yellowish colour, of a lean, slender and rough habit of body,* 1.33 with fair veins and large Arteries, and a strong and quick pulse: their skin being touched, feels hot, dry, hard, rough and harsh, with a pricking and acid exhalation which breaths forth of their whole body. They cast forth much choler by stool, vomit, and urine.* 1.34 They are of a quick and nimble wit, stout, hardy and sharp vindicators of received injuries, liberal even to pro∣digality, and somewhat too desirous of glory. Their sleep is light, and from which they are quickly waked: their dreams are fiery, burning, quick, and full of fury; they are delighted with meats and drinks which are somewhat more cold and moist, and are subject to Tertian and burning feavers, the Phrensie, Jaundise, Inflammations, and other Cholerick pustles, the Lask, Bloody flux, and bitterness of the mouth.

The signes of a Phlegmatick Person.

THose in whom Phlegm hath the dominion, are of a whitish coloured face,* 1.35 and somtimes li∣vid and swollen, with their body fat, soft, and cold to touch.

They are molested with Phlegmatick diseases, as Oedematous tumours, the Dropsie, Quoti∣dian feavers, falling away of the hairs, and Catarrhs falling down upon the Lungs, and the Aspe∣ra Arteria, or Weason: they are of a slow capacity, dull, slothful, drowsie; they do dream of rains, snows, floods, swimming, and such like, that they often imagine themselves overwhelmed with waters; they vomit up much watery and Phlegmatick matter, or otherwise spit and evacu∣ate it, and have a soft and moist tongue.

And they are troubled with a dog-like hunger, if at any time it should happen that their insi∣pid Phlegm become acide; and they are slow of digestion, by reason of which they have great store of cold and Phlegmatick humors; which if they be carried down into the windings of the Colick-gut, they cause murmuring and noise, and sometimes the Colick.

For much wind is easily caused of such like Phlegmatick excrements wrought upon by a small and weak heat, such as Phlegmatick persons have,* 1.36 which by its natural lightness is diversly car∣ried through the turnings of the guts, and distends and swells them up, and whiles it strives for passage out, it causeth murmurings and noises in the belly, like wind breaking through narrow passages.

Signes of a Melancholick Person.

THe face of Melancholy persons is swart, their countenance cloudy and often cruel,* 1.37 their as∣spect is sad and froward; frequent Scirrhus, or hard swellings, tumors of the Spleen, Hae∣morroids, Varices (or swollen Veins) Quartain feavers, whether continual or intermitting; Quin∣tain, Sextain, and Septimane feavers: and, to conclude, all such wandering feavers or agues set upon them. But when it happens, the Melancholy humour is sharpened, either by adustion, or commixture of Choler, then Tetters, the black Morphew, the Cancer simple and ulcerated, the Leprous and filthy scab, sending forth certain scaly and branlike excrescences, (being vulgar∣ly called Saint Manis his evil;) and the Leprosie it self invades them; They have small veins and arteries, because coldness hath dominion over them; whose property is to straiten, as the quality of heat is to dilate. But if at any time their Veins seem big, that largeness is not by rea∣son of the laudable blood contained in them, but from much windiness;* 1.38 by occasion whereof it is somewhat difficult to let them blood; not only, because that when the Vein is opened, the blood flows slowly forth, by reason of the cold slowness of the humors; but much the rather, for that the vein doth nor receive the impression of the Lancet, sliding this way and that way, by reason of the windiness contained in it, and because that the harsh driness of the upper skin, resists the edge of the instrument. Their bodies seem cold and hard to the touch, and they are troubled with terrible dreams, for they are observed to seem to see in the night Devils, Serpents, dark dens and caves, sepulchres, dead corpses, and many other such things ful of horror,* 1.39 by reason of a black

vapor, diversly moving and disturbing the brain, which also we see happens to those, who* 1.40 fear the water, by reason of the biting of a mad Dog. You shall find them froward, fraudulent, par∣simonious, and covetous even to baseness, slow speakers, fearful, sad, complainers, careful, inge∣nious, lovers of solitariness, man-haters, obstinate maintainers of opinions once conceived, slow to anger, but angred not to be pacified. But when Melancholy hath exceeded natures and its own bounds, then by reason of putrefaction and inflammation all things appear full of extreme fury and madness, so that they often cast themselves headlong down from some high place, or are otherwise guilty of their own death, with fear of which notwithstanding they are terrified.

* 1.41But we must note that changes of the native temperament, do often happen in the course of a mans life, so that he which awhile agone was Sanguine, may now be Cholerick, Melancholick, or Phlegmatick; not truly, by the changing of the blood into such Humors, but by the mutation of Diet, and the course or vocation of life. For none of a Sanguine complexion but will prove Cho∣lerick if he eat hot and dry meats,* 1.42 (as all like things are cherished and preserved by the use of their like, and contraries are destroyed by their contraries) and weary his body by violent ex∣ercises, and continual labors; and if there be a suppression of Cholerick excrements, which be∣fore did freely flow, either by nature or art. But whosoever feeds upon Meats generating gross blood,* 1.43 as Beef, Venison, Hare, old Cheese, and all salt Meats, he without all doubt sliding from his nature, will fall into a Melancholy temper; especially, if to that manner of diet, he shall have a vocation full of cares, turmoils, miseries, strong and much study, careful thoughts and fears; & al∣so if he sit much, wanting exercise, for so the inward heat, as it were, defrauded of its nourishment, faints, and grows dull, whereupon gross and drossie humors abound in the body. To this also the cold and dry condition of the place in which we live, doth conduce, and the suppression of the Melancholy humor accustomed to be evacuated by the Haemorrhoides, courses, and stools.

* 1.44But he acquires a Phlegmatick temper, whosoever useth cold and moist nourishment, much feeding, who before the former meat is gone out of the belly, shall stuff his paunch with more, who presently after meat runs into violent exercises, who inhabit cold and moist places, who lead their life at ease in all idleness; and lastly, who suffer a suppression of the Phlegmatick humor ac∣customly evacuated by vomit, cough, or blowing the nose, or any other way, either by nature or art. Certainly it is very convenient to know these things, that we may discern if any at the pre∣sent be Phlegmatick, Melancholick, or of any other temper; whether he be such by nature, or necessity. Having declared those things which concern the nature of Temperaments, and defer∣red the description of the parts of the body to our Anatomy, we will begin to speak of the Facul∣ties governing this our life, when first we shall have shewn, by a practical demonstration of ex∣amples, the use and certainty of the aforesaid rules of Temperaments.

Notes

• * 1.1

  The knowledg of the Humor is necessary.
• * 1.2

  Lib. De Natura Humana.
• * 1.3

  The helps of Health.
• * 1.4

  What an Hu∣mor is.
• * 1.5

  The manifold division of Hu∣mors.
• * 1.6

  The material and efficient causes of blood.
• * 1.7

  What the Chy∣lus is.
• * 1.8

  Vena porta.
• * 1.9

  Where the Blood is per∣fected.
• * 1.10

  The receptacles of Choler and Melancholy. Four unlike Humors in the Blood.
• * 1.11

  A comparison of Blood and new Wine.
• * 1.12

  Phlegm is Blood half concocted.
• * 1.13

  Why it hath no proper re∣ceptacle.
• * 1.14

  Lib. 1. de temp.
• * 1.15

  One and the same Heat is the efficient cause of all humors at the same time.
• * 1.16

  The heat of the Sun alone doth melt was and harden clay.
• * 1.17

  The divers condition of the matter a∣lone, is the cause of va∣riety.
• * 1.18

  The effect of Phlegm.
• * 1.19

  The effects of Choler.
• * 1.20

  The effects of Melancholy.
• * 1.21

  What motions are in each quarter of the body.
• * 1.22

  The Melan∣choly Humor doth not cause, but whet the appetite.
• * 1.23

  A serous or wheyish hu∣mor.
• * 1.24

  Secundary Humors.
• * 1.25

  ••os.
• * 1.26

  Humors a∣gainst nature.
• * 1.27

  Into what Hu∣mors the blood when it cor∣rupts, doth degenerate.
• * 1.28

  The Melan∣choly Humor corrupted, is of three kinds.
• * 1.29

  Albumine••••.
• * 1.30

  Vitellin••.
• * 1.31

  Such as the humor is, such is the colour.
• * 1.32

  The manners and diseases of Sanguine per∣sons.
• * 1.33

  Cholerick are not commonly fat.
• * 1.34

  The manners and diseases of Cholerick per∣sons.
• * 1.35

  The manners and diseases of phlegmatick persons.
• * 1.36

  From whence noise or rum∣bling in the belly proceeds.
• * 1.37

  Diseases fami∣liar to Melan∣choly persons.
• * 1.38

  From, or by what their Veins are swollen.
• * 1.39

  Their dream••
• * 1.40

  Hydrophob. Their man∣ners.
• * 1.41

  From wh••nce the change of the native temper.
• * 1.42

  How one may become Cho∣lerick.
• * 1.43

  How Melan∣cholick.
• * 1.44

  How Phleg∣matick.