SUNY Upstate Medical University - Auricle Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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There are four luiniors in the body, namely, blood, pldeqni, yellow bile and black bile. They arc mixed in such a way and i such quantities that normally man retains his hcallli, If, o n- ever, they are diminished, or siipc rabuiidant , or tliickened, or retained, or if they escape, become bitter, l( avc their normal regions, or enter unusual situations, various situations occur in mankind. Sometimes it is u(HX ssary to nourisli lliCNliumors, sometimes to dilute them, sometimes to compensate, and some times to moderate them. Ik; Ijodyf brain; yellow The four humors have llieir seals in lour p blood dwells in the arteries and veins; phlecjm bile in the liver; black bile in |Ik sph ori , . . Blood luis a ruddy color, plilctim whik ' , yellow bilf. ' isreddirJi, blackbih} is blackand thick, I lieir (]iialiliesarr;af,lollowr,: fjlood is moist and warm; plilc(|iri is cold and mcjist; yellov liile warm and xfiy; black bile cold and dry. Therelore blood is bitter by naiiirr;; phlegm salt and swec. ' t; yellow bile sharp; black l)ilf strong and harp. It is obvious thai these humors rule differently in differ- il ages. In infants yellow bile and blood are more important; in adolescents black bile; in tfie malurc ' , lilood; in the olrl, phlr.-gm. til spring, summer, autumn, and winter ' , different humorr, rlonv- Mte. In the spring blood abounds; in the summer yellow bile; III the autumn black hi If;; in the v inter phlegm. We may add that I he differeni lnimors acl in the follov ing ly: blood makes the spiril wilder; yellow hile makes it bold- : hlar.k hi If-, firmer; plilefjin, sluggish , , . I iie Rise of f leflieine at Sale In the ] 2th Crnliiry 40

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