kinde. And if it happen that cholar taketh ſtrength of ſuch greene hearbs and rawe in colour, and ſo it ſeemed to Galen. Auicen noteth, that Praxina is gēdred of a yeolow cholar, when it is ouerburnt, for when it is burned, burning bréedeth blackneſſe therein, by which blackneſſe medled with citrine, gréene colour is gendred. The fourth manner of Cholera is called Eruginoſa, ruſtie, that is bred of Cholera, that is named, Praſsiua by more burning: for when it is ſo burnt, that the moyſture thereof is dryed, then it draweth the whitenes of aſhen colour. For in a moyſt bodye, heate bréedeth firſt blackneſſe: and then when the moyſture is all deſtroyed, it bréedeth a manner of whiteneſſe, as it fareth in trées and wood, that by burning firſt turne into coales, and then into aſhes. But colde contrariwiſe, in a moyſt body bréedeth whiteneſſe, and in a drye body blackneſſe: but this laſt manner of choler, is worſe & more venemous than all the other. The venemous qualytie whereof, bréedeth in the body euill paſſions of peſtilence and of death, as Heriſipila, & Noli me tangere, &c. Then this kindly Cholera if it paſſe not ye bounds of kinde, it maketh other humours ſubtill, and comforteth digeſtion, and cleanſeth congealings and corruption, & maketh the body ſtretch in length, breadth, and thickneſſe, and bréedeth boldnes and hardineſſe, mouing and lyghtneſſe, & ſtirreth to wrath and deſire of reuenge: and alſo prouoketh to ye works of Venus, & helpeth the vertue expulſiue, and cléereth thicke matter, and maketh it to mooue from the middle to the vtter parts, and chaungeth the vtter partes, in coulour of citrine and blacke. And ſo cholaricke men be generally wrathful, hardie and vnméeke, light, vnſtable, vnmercifull: in the body long, ſlender, & leane: in colour brown, in haire black & criſpe, hard and ſtiffe, in touch hotte, in pulſe, ſtrong and ſwifte, the vryne of them is thin in ſubſtaunce and ſubtill, in colour, faire, ſhining and cléere. If this cholar be corrupt in anye parte of the bodye, it bréedeth euill paſſions in the bodye. Of the which paſſions, theſe are the generall ſignes and tokens, as Conſtantine ſayeth in Pantegni. liber. 9. ca. 2. If corrupt cholar haue maſterie in the body, the ſkinne is yeolowe, either citrine, and alſo there is a default in the vertue of appetite, bitterneſſe is felt in the mouth, ſo that ſwéete things ſeeme bitter, and ſauoury, vnſauoury. There is pricking and burning in the ſtomack of a hot fume, that puncheth and nippeth the ſinewes of the ſtomacke, loathing with cholarick ſpuing, with thirſt and drineſſe of the tongue. The ſame hot ſmoake dryeth the woſen that is called Trahea, and that humour of ſpittle, aboute the ſinnewes of the tongue.
There is alſo hollowneſſe of eyen, with moyſt reſpect, the pulſe is ſubtill, ſwifte and thicke: red vrine and high of colour, ſore head ach, waking, changing of minde, fearefull ſights in ſléepe: For ſuch men dreame of fire, and of lyghtening, and of dreadfull burning of the ayre, which is cauſed of fierye ſmoake, that chaungeth ſtronglye the brayne and the vertue imaginatiue. And this that is ſpoken of cholar, and of the ſpices thereof ſufficeth.
¶Of Melancholy. Cap. 11.
Melancholy is a humour boyſtous and thicke, and is bred of troubled congealyngs of bloud: and hath his name of Melon, that is blacke, and Calor that is humoure: wherevpon it is called Melancholia, as it were a blacke humour: and ſo Phiſitions call it, Cholera nigra, blacke cholar: for the coulour thereof declineth toward blacknes. Some melancholy is kindlye and ſome vnkindly: the kindly melancholy is colde and drye, that is bred in bloud, as the lées is in wine: the ſubſtance wherof is thicke and earthy, the ſauour therof, is betwéene ſwéete and ſower, brackiſh. This manner melancholy is diuided into two partes, the one abideth with the bloud, and ſetteleth therewith into the members, becauſe of neede and of helpe. If néedeth that it be meddeled with bloude, to make the bloude apte and couenable to féede the melancholye
