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eth: from: heat.-. The red.and croceous &c. fhew exceflive ficcity and calidity or 
heat. e The green and .porraceous are figns of much moilture. Alfo to the 
white may the candid be reduced; to the yellow, the luteous, wax coloured, cro 
ceous, golden, honey-coloured, citron, fox-coloured,: and vitcelline; to the red, 
the light red, flaming, and fanguine colour; to, the purple, the violet, fleth co- 
lour, and brunous; to the. green, the praffive, herbaceous, enginous, and porra- 
ceous; to the fky-colour, the horn white, grey, grifled, black, and. blue, ath 
colour, pale, and murry 5. to.the black, the dark. 3. By geuthmology, or fa- 
pors, or taltes, which, according to fome, are, 1. more perceptible or manifett; — 
as the fimples, which are, 4. hot, firft more hot, and fo firft of more thin. parts, 
as the fharp, fecondly, of more thin parts, as the bitter, nitrous, and falt; fe- 
condly, lefs hot, as the fweet, and is diverie according to.the diverfity of tenuity 
and humidity. 2. Cold, firft of Srofs terrene parts. Firft, more grofs as the 
acerbe: fecondly, lefs grofs, as the auftere and aftringent. -Secondly, of fub- 
tile aqueous parts, and doubtful, as the acid... Thirdly, the mixed, as the vi. 
‘nous, compounded of the acid and fweet. 2. Lefs perceptible, and almoft ine 
fipid. 1, Aqueous, firfl more fubtile, as the acquinfipid ; fecondly, more. grofs. 
Firft, glutinous, as the humilent; fecondly, fat, as the oleous. 2. Terrene, 1. fuc- 
.culent, as the adoreous ; 2. more dry as the ligniterreous, The {apors or taftes arc, . 
tel, Sy Mea Day eek i 
. Te Aerie: 1. “bitter, wormwood-like, ,gaulifh, faline, or -aloetick, which is 
contrary to the nature -of living creatures, the tafte whereof doth vellicate the 
tongue. It confifteth. of terrene combuft parts, of which; fomeé are more fubtilé t 
others,.more grofs .and terrene, exiccated by exuperant heat, or coagulated by 
-cold, as appears in opium: and aloes. It is not nutritive, it openeth the moutks 
wef the veins, caufeth; hemorrages, and thirft, and makes the blood fluxible: it at- 
fenuateth, incideth, piteth, exafperates, cleanfeth,  melterh, attracteth, yet more 
mdrieth.and heateth, it confumeth, and refifteth putrefaGtion, drinking 
aneous humours, and refifting fweetnefs + it is ‘hot and dry in the Fi 
¢. terra nfta.. 2. Sharp, ,aromatical, biting, feptick, or arfenical, hot, 
inning, ypricking the tongue, and biting the mouth, it confifteth of thin, 
t Parts, as: pepper; onions, &c. If it be:not vehement, and hot under 
3 faken, inwardly it doth penetrate, vopen, and attenuate thick hu- 
»ttrarityeth the fkin, and draweth forth humours: 
: ' » it troubleth the head with thin.vapours: if it 
altick, and caufeth blifters and fcabs : and if it 
ick and.cead y> allo it is of quick operation; 
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