and circumſtaunces equall héere & there, running together in ſlenderneſſe & length they be more apte. If there be much heat and much humour, not too much neither too lyttle to the working of ye heat, but couenably and meaſurably, then the bodies euery wayes be great, high, long, and broad. They be high through the heate that beareth vp to the topwarde, the moſt ſubtill parts of the moyſture. Broad and thicke, through the vertue of heate that ſheddeth the ſad parts of the moiſture, as it néedeth to euery ſide, and vniteth one part to another: ſo moiſture maketh kindly things ſmooth and ſofte: for if moyſtneſſe be ſhed into the vtter parts of a thing, it filleth all the voyde places thereof, and maketh them euen & plaine, and ſo it maketh ſmooth and ſoft. But yet it happeneth ſometime it maketh rough, as when in ſome caſe, hot humours and cold fléeteth and commeth together to one place. The hot humors beare vp the vttermoſt parts of ye thing, and colde humours beare downwarde the vttermoſt partes: and ſo contrarye humours, worke contrariouſneſſe & vneuenneſſe, with roughnes in ye vtter part of the body. Alſo if moyſture be in the body temperate, as it néedeth, it helpeth all the working of the ſoule, and of the body alſo. For of humours the ſpirites that rule the body, be bread and conſerued therein. Alſo the vertues of the ſpirits worke their effects in all the lyms of the body ſenſitiue and motiue, by miniſtration and ſeruice of humours, as it appeareth in the vertue of ſight, which by meane of a Chriſtiall humour, worketh the ſight in the eye. Alſo the vertue of taaft béemeth neuer betwéene ſauors, but by meane of the humour of ſpittle, and ſo of other. For if the ſubſtauntiall moyſture be deſtroyed or corrupted in the body, all the working of the ſoule is let. If there be in all the body, or in any part thereof too much moyſture, yt maye not be ruled of kinde, then moyſture is cauſe and matter of rotting and of corruption, & bréedeth in the body full euill paſſions & ſicknes: as it is ſéen in Apoplexia,[1] in the which euill ſuperfluitie of moiſture, occupieth ſo al the chambers & dennes of the braine, that the ſpirit, that is called, Spirites Animalis, maye not paſſe by the ſinewes of feelyng, to make the body feele and moue: and ſo taketh from the ſoule his working in the body: And alſo it taketh from the body feeling and mouing; and bringeth in at laſt, ſtiflyng and death: as ſayth Galen in the Commente ſuper Aphoris, exponens verbū Hippocratis. Soluere Apoplexiam fortem impoſsibile eſt: debilembnk vero non facile. Moyſture of fleame occupieng all the region of the brayne, ſtoppeth the wayes of the ſinewes, that the ſpirite Animalis, maye not come to the neather part: and ſo the breath is ſtopped, and the lyfe ended. This moyſture defaulteth ſometime in qualytie, & ſometime in quantitie, and that ſometime by an inwarde cauſe, and ſometime by outwarde cauſe. By inwarde cauſe, as by euill complection, when the hurtfull moyſture is rooted in the lymmes, and may not be diſſolued & waſted by kindly heate, neyther be chaunged from his malyce: Such moyſture in diuers places of the body breedeth-diuers ſickneſſes, as it is ſeene in Epilepſia, the fallyng Euill, when it commeth of the ſtopping of the powers and brayne: and alſo of ye dropſie; when it commeth of euil complection of the lyuer. Alſo of an outward cauſe, as of things, that Iohannicus and Galen call vnkindly things, as aire, meate, and drinke, ſléeping and waking, faſting, and too much eating and drinking, working, trauellyng, and reſt. All theſe, if they be taken as kind as keth, they breed and kéepe ſubſtaunciall moyſture, and repayre and reſtore what is loſt.
And if they bée taken in contrary manner, they haue contrarye effect and dooing. For then they bréede vnkinde moyſture, and cauſe diuers groſe and heauye humoures to increaſe, or els they corrupt, alter and chaunge kindly moyſture, as ſayeth Galen in Aphoriſmo. Hippocratis particula tertia fuper illum locum, Immutationes temporum maxime generant morbos, &c. That is, The often courſe and chaunging of times moſt bréedeth ſickneſſes.
- ↑ The loſſe of natural feelyng.
