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cines which may connive with the Earth, whofe drinefsmay 

 harden fuch moifture. If it proceed of Cold Rheums j or the 

 like, whereby the infirmity hath its fource from the Elemeatof 

 Water, you muft then aaminifter Medicines cohering with the 

 Element of Fire, and Air, which may be able through its heat 

 and moifture to expel all cold and grofs humours. And laitly, 

 if the grief be M^ingcnefs, or thelike, which cometh from the 

 Earth, which be dry and arid infedious difeafes, then mult 

 your applications be had from the Element of Fire, whole na- 

 ture is to dilTolve aH ficcative humours : wherefore ( I fay a- 

 gain ) that heat bsing too predominant is afiTwaged by the 

 means of moiftnefs and coldnefs ) too great moiltnefs by heat 

 and drinefs, over-much coldnefs by heat ^nd drinefs, and too 

 great a proportion of drinefs by heat aioiic. 



Hippophilus. But then tell me-t I pf/ty you-, be there no other E- 

 lements^ er beginmn^s inltviK^BodlQs:, more than thefefoUr before 

 named <* 



fJtppoferus. No Sir, not any other which have their begin- 

 nings: but there are two other which the Learned do term 

 -pro^Qr Elements: •z^/z,. the Ingendring of S^^^, znd Menfirual 

 ■Blood -^ but thefe (I fay) do alTuine their eflence from, the other 

 four Elements, whereby they become a Body, which otherwile 

 they could not, and therefore are fubordinate to them, and ?. 

 they take their place after them. 



Hippophilus. Having fpoken fitfficiefstly of the natures and <^H^IU>' - 

 ties of thefe four Elements : What fay you to- the Humours^ Thefoar", 



Hippoferfis. I fay that the Humours are alio four'- in number, f?"".^ ^"^' 

 which Phyficians do ftile the firft^WmVj, according, as! haye "'"' 

 formerly intimated: and thefe four are -ff/W, Phlegmt Cl/oler^ 

 .and Melancholy • Blood being fweet in tafte, Phlegmy ndt\\zi 

 fweet, bitter,, nor fbwr, and therefore of no taite, or if of any, . 

 , (like to that of good Oy 1) rath^er fweet thauotherwife :■ Cholcr 

 , is bitter in talle, and Melancholy h£o^xt\vii2iii^€^- So as by 

 ' thele taftes you may diltinguilh them j and thefe Humours have - 

 ! reference or near affinity unto the foup Elements ^' for like as 

 I have before agnized,^ W is of the nature of the Air:, Phlegm - 

 of the Water \ Cholsr of the Fire \ \ zndjMelancholy. of the Earth 5 :. 

 ,^nd thefe Humours have their partiCtiidr abode and refidencc ;. 

 in theWy, abfolute and peculiar, to.themlelves;! as 5^0^ hath -^ 



