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That of bile ; unctuousness, sharpness, lightness, foulness, Jepuratory mois- 

 ture. 



That of phlegm : unctuousness, coolness, heaviness, and dulness, softness, or 

 gentleness, steadiness, adhesion, passionateness. 



6th Chapter. — On the works or action of the body. These are the body, 

 the speech, and the mind. Virtue, vice, and undetermined cases. The five 

 organs occupy their own place. The body is divided into basis (ground or 

 support), age, nature (or constitution), division of diseases. The basis has a 

 triple division. Age also has the same number ; that of nature or native dis- 

 position, has seven. With respect to disease, the distinctions are : indisposition 

 and absence of morbid state. 



7th Chapter. — On the tokens of destruction (or approaching death) of the 

 body: I. Tokens of a far distant death. 2. Ditto of a near one. 3. Uncertain, 

 and 4, Certain tokens of death. Distant tokens-are : any envoy (of death), dream, 

 and change (by age), &c. ; the near tokens are distinguished into near and very 

 near. Uncertain tokens ; as, when after recovering from a sickness, one may 

 live yet many years. Certain tokens, as, when the disease is incurable. 



A physician should be well acquainted with the tokens of death ; that he may 

 know whether the patient be curable or incurable, and to perform his medical 

 service accordingly. 



8th Chapter. — On the increasing and decreasing state of sickness. Here is 

 treated of the causes and accessory causes of the disease ; the manner of its 

 origin ; the diseased part ; the character and distinctions of the importance of 

 each. 



First. The causes are proximate, and remote. 



9th Chapter. — There are three accessory causes that depend on the primary 

 cause : the originating and spreading, the gathering together and arising ; and 

 the taking away of the disease. 



10th Chapter. — On the manner in which any disease takes place in the 

 body. 



llth Chapter. — On the character of diseases ; as, an increasing, diminishing, 

 and a perplexed, disease. The causes of which are to be sought in the too great 

 or too small quantity of the three humours, of the seven supports of the body, 

 and of the faeces. 



12th Chapter. — Division of diseases ; with respect to the cause, the individual, 

 and the kind of disease. With respect to the cause : this is attributed to the 

 vicious three humours of this life ; to the consequence of immoral actions in for- 

 mer generations or lives, and to a mixture of both. With respect to the indivi- 

 duals : they are, man, woman, child, old persons ; and men of every description. 

 The several diseases peculiar to each are enumerated. The number of the kinds 

 of the common diseases is stated to be 404, which are divided or distinguished out 

 of several respects. As with respect to the vicious humours, principal humour, 

 place or injured part, and the kind of disease, 42 belong to wind, 26 to bile, 33 to 

 phlegm. Thus with respect to the humours, 101 divisions are made, and so on ; 

 with respect to the other points also, many distinctions or classifications are 

 enumerated, each amounting to 101. 



13th Chapter. — With respect to the conduct. What course of life is to be 

 taken, (to be free from disease :) 1. continually, 2, at certain periods, and 3, 

 occasionally, or as circumstances may require. The two first are treated in the 

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