For in ſléeping the pulſe is wont to bée little and ſlow: and after ſléepe ſtrong & great. For then the kind heat is comforted: but yet if the ſléepe be too long, the pulſe waxeth thin and féeble. Wherfore if a man be ſodeinly awaked of his ſléep, otherwiſe then kinde will, anone ye pulſe is found ſwift and thicke, quaking, and inordinate. And if he take his reſt after ſuch fright, againe the pulſe turneth to his former eſtate. Alſo through trauaile and buſineſſe of the bodie, if it bée temporate, it maketh the pulſe ſtrong, great, ſwift, and thicke. For by temporate trauaile the kinde heate is ſtirred. But if the trauaile paſſeth temporaunce, the contrary happeneth, the pulſe is lyttle, hard, ſlowe, and thin. For in them that trauaile ſo, the vertue faileth, and kinde heate is diſſolued, and then the pulſe is féebled. Alſo through vſe of often bathing. For they yt bath temporatly in hot water, they haue the pulſe ſtrong, great, and thicke, and that is through the comfort of kinde, and of deſtroieng of ſuperfluitie of moiſture. But in them that abide too long in the water, the pulſe is made féeble: But yet the ſwiftneſſe and thicknes abideth as it was afore hand. Alſo likewiſe they yt bath them temporatly in cold water, haue ye pulſe ſtrong and ſwifte, and that chaunceth through ioyning togethers of kindly heat & comfort of the vertue that commeth of temporance of the vtter keeling. But to long abiding in ſuch a bath, feebleth the pulſe and the vertue. And that happeneth more in leane men then in fat, through coldneſſe that commeth to the vtter partes to ſodeinly. And as it were without let, pearcing in, and as it were conſtraining the partes about the heart more then inough. Alſo through diuerſe taking of meate and drinke. For too much meal & vndigeſted féebleth the pulſe. But meat moderatly taken and digeſted, & ſpread into the limmes, by ſtirring vp the vertue, augmenteth the pulſe. Alſo moderate drinke, and digeſted, maketh the pulſe ſtrong, great, and ſwift. Hot drinke maketh the pulſe ſwift and thicke, but cold drinke maketh the pulſe thin & ſlow. Alſo through diuerſe paſſions of the ſoule. For wrath maketh ye pulſe ſwift, ſtrong, and thicke: & gladneſſe maketh it meane. Alſo dreade or feare maketh the pulſe ſwift, inordinate in quaking: and ſo doth ſorrow. And ſo of other paſſions it happeneth. And this that is ſaid of the properties, vertues, effects, and working of the might and ſtrength of the ſoule, touching this treatiſe is inough at this time. Now ſomewhat ſhall be ſaid, by the help and grace of God, of the properties of mans bodie Of the which body the ſoule is act and perfection.
FINIS LIBRI TERTII.
¶INCIPIT LIBER
QVARTVS.
¶Of the properties of the corporall ſubſtaunce.
o treate of the properties of mans body, and of the parts therof, we ſhall firſt begin to treate of the qualities of the elements and of the humors, of the which the body is made.
¶Of the foure qualities Elementarie. Chap. 1.
Elements there are foure, & ſo there be foure qualities of Elements, of the which euery bodie that hath a ſoule, is compoſed and made, as of matter. And namely mans bodie, that is nobleſt among all the Elements, and moſt nobly ordeined among all things, that be compoſed
