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day, though the child may come to good. They are of a clogged disposition.
Of the four elements, and of the four complexions of men.
These four are the elements.
Air, Earth, Fire, and Water.
The twenty-four hours of the day and night rule sanguine, cholerick, melancholy and phlegm, according to Ptolemeus.
How a man may know whether himself or friend waxing sick, shall live or die.
The 6th and 16th day of March, shalt thou draw blood out of thy right arm. The 11th of April out of thy left arm. In the end of April out of which arm thou wilt, and especially against a fever, and if thou dost, neither shalt thou lose thy sight, nor shalt thou have a fever so long as you live. And whosoever on the 7th March is let blood in the right arm, and on the 10th of April in the left, shall recover—On the