4 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH: PHYSICDBAN, 
other members of the body for their nourifhment, where, by a third digeftion,: it is 
tranfmuted i into the flefh. 
‘Choler, or bile, is made of meat more than perfectly. concocted : it is the lt or 
froth of blood ; it clarifieth all the humours, heats the body, and nouritheth the ape 
prehenfion: It is in quality hot and dry, it fortifieth the attractive faculty as blood 
doth the digeftive; it moveth man to activity and valour: it isunder the planet 
Mars, whofe refidence is in the gall, which is an official member,.a purfe or panicular 
veflicle placed in the hollownefs of the liver, whofe office is to. receive the cholétic 
fuperfluities, which are engendered in the liver as aforefaid. . Which purfe, or bag, 
hath three holes, or necks. © By the firft it draweth to itfelf the choler from the liver, 
that fo the blood be not hurt by the bile, or choler. By the fecond it fendeth cho- 
ler to the bottom of the ftomach, to fortify the attractive faculty. And, laftly, it 
fendeth choler regularly to every gut, from one gut to peers to scar them wn 
fuperfluities and drofs, ae 
’ Phlegm is made of meat not perfectly digefted : it fortifieth the virtue cacvile 
and maketh the body fit for ejection; it is kind to, and fortifieth, the brain by its 
confimilitude with it; it is antipathetical to the apprehenfion, and doth much injure — 
it, therefore phlegmatic perfons have but weak apprehenfions ; it is cold and. moift 
in quality, its receptacle is in the lungs, itis governed: by the Moon and Venuss 
therefore it qualifies the bile, cools and moiftens the heart, thereby fofiicinained 
the whole body from the fiery effets which continual motion would produce: . 
Melancholy is thefediment of blood: it is cold and dry-in quality; it smalceeh nen 
fober, folid, and ftaid, fit for ftudy, or any ferious employments 5: it curbs the un- 
bridled paffions incident to the fanguine complexion : it ftayeth wandering and idle 
hts, and reduces them home to the centre; it is like.a grave counfellor to the 
whole body. Tris governed by the planet Saturn, it ftrengtheneth the retentive fa- 
culty, and its receptacle is in the fpleen; which in the ——- is hag on mene 
, tantverfcly linked to the Romack. 
Oke. THE REINS AND KIDNEYS: a 
_ THE RE! [NS and KIDNEYS are placed within the region of the notrites 
- ackwards, and they are ordained to cleanfe the blood from the watery fuperfluitie iz 
have two paffages: by the one is drawn the water from the, venakelis, BY a 
7cins, which ate called wene emulgentes, the emulgent veins 5. ard pity sek sii 
the fame: water SA siete this is, celia enone: coheed 
