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nature_n	cold_a	hot_a	moist_a	5,424	5	10.2024	5	true

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A00527	Speculum ægrotorum. The sicke-mens glasse or, A plaine introduction wherby one may giue a true, and infallible iudgement, of the life or death of a sicke bodie, the originall cause of the griefe, how he is tormented and afflicted, what thinges are medicinable to the diseased person: and the day and houre in which he shall recouer, or surrender his vitall breath. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humors, and how they are ingendered and distributed in our humane bodies: with certaine and manifest signes to discerne of what complexion any man is: and the operation that eating, drinking rest and exercise, worketh in euery person: with certaine speciall preseruatiues for the eye-sight. Composed by Iohn Fage, student in phisicke, and practitioner in astrologie.	Fage, John, student in phisicke.	1606 (1606)	STC 10665; ESTC S114685	34,615	72

fretting Fleame corrupted with choller ♂ in ♐ Mars afflicting the moone in Sagitarius will prouoke a griefe of blood and red choller ♄ and ♂ in ♐ But if Saurne and Mars oppresse the Moone in Sagitarius the diseases shall come of citrine choller ♄ in ♑ If the Moone be in Capricorne afflicted by Saturne the griefe shall happen of melancholie ♂ in ♑ Mars afflicting the moone Capricornus will cause a disease procéeding of chollericke matter ♄ and ♂ in ♑ But if Saturne and Mars oppresse the moone in the celestiall signe of Capricornus the griefe shall come of melancholie aduste ☽ in ♒ ♄ The moone in Aquarius afflicted by Saturne the griefe shall procéed of yeallow choller and congealed fleame ♂ in ♒ Mars endomaging the Moone in Aquarius will stirre vp a disease of red choller or blood aduste ♄ and ♂ And if Saturne and Mars oppresse the Moone in the signe of Aquarius the sicknesse shall come of blood and choller ♄ in ♓ If Saturne infest the Moone in Pisces the griefe shall happen of fleame congealed by melancholly ♂ in ♓ But if Mars oppresse the moone in Pisces the grife shall chance of choller and swéet fleame ♄ and ♂ Finally if Saturne and Mars afflict the móone in Pisces the diseases shall procéed yeallow choler and tough fleame congealed Thus much I haue thought conuenient to write of the iudgement on sicke folkes when the day and houre of the lying downe or the descombiture of the diseased person can by any meanes bée serutated or néerely knowne but if the day and houre cannot bée shewed in which the sicke tooke his bed then you must contemplate the scituation and collocation of the Planets by a Celestiall figure erected for that time in which the question was demaunded or the disease first demonstrated or shewed which manner of iudicials I will now omit for breuities sake vntill my next Addition committing thee gentle Reader in the meane whiles to the documents of G. C. in his Addition to the worke of worthy Darius intituled The Iudgement of the Starres wherein he hath learnedly and copiously intreated thereof FINIS A Treatise of the foure Humours THE body of Man is composed of foure essentiall and hetrogeniall substances that is to say Fleame Blood Choller and Melancholie which Physitions call Humours or complections and mixtures of those foure simple qualities Heate Colde Moysture and Drinesse ●s Heate and Moysture c. which if they excéed or alter that proportion that nature ordeined them at the first either in qualitie or quantity then shortly happeneth sicknesse discrasie The qualitie of the foure Humours and the times appropriated vnto them FLeame is the originall and primordination of the other Humours and is engendered of vnperfect digestion and is colde and moyst in qualitie like the water and hath most puissance in Winter from the eight day of October vntil the ninth of March and from the third houre of the night vntill the ninth of the saide night This humour is bred in the Liuer and hath his abiding in the stomacke and is knowne to excéede by these Signes Sléepinesse Dulnesse Slownesse Heauinesse Fatnesse Cowardishnes Forgetfulnesse Spitting Super fluitie in the nose little app●tie indigestion the skinne whiter colder and smoother in touching then it was woont to be their Vrine lower coloured and thicker and the Pulse lower and lesser then it was accustomed to be with dreaming of Raine Flouds and waters BLood is a Humour perfectly concoct the chiefest nourisher and preserner of our humaine nature and is hote and moiste like the aire and increaseth in Spring time from the tenth of March to the 24. of April and hath dominion from the ninth houre of the night vntill ●he third houre of the morning and hath his abode in the veines and is knowne to abound by these signes the Vesne● great and full carnositie rednes of skinne pricking of the temples lightnesse of heart the Pulse great and full dreames of red and bloody things and pleasant conceites their Vrine will be higher coloured and thicker in substance then ordinarily CHoller is the clarifier of the other Humours and is bred of the substance of the meate and drinke exceedingly digested and of some Author is called the froth or spume of blood and is hote and dry in temperature like the fire and hath power in Summer from the 25. of April vntill the 17. of September and hath dominion from the third houre of the day vntill the ninth houre of the same Signes Leannesse of body C●stiuenesse Hollownes of the eyes Fiercenesse Angrynes Yellownes of the skinne and spottell and pricking in the right side of the heade Hotnes the Pulse is swift and strong and their Vrine higher coloured and thinner brighter then vsuall with dreaming of fire lightning Anger and Fighting and hath his abitacle in the choffer of the Galle MElancholie is a Humour vnperfectly concect and is called the dregs or sediment of the other Humours and is cold and dry like the Earth But my opinion is that pure Melancholie is a grosse and thicke blood and is blacke of colour by reason of the crassitude and thicknes which happeneth by meanes of indigestion and want of naturall heate to extenuate it and turne it into pure blood so that Melancholie naturall differeth from blood chiefly by means of colones which congealeth and maketh it drier and thicker then b●ood neither doe I suppose that Melancholy is altogether so dry as it is cold for as much as wee finde fewe men in whose bodyes Melancholy onely hath the superioritie to excéede in leannes or slendernes but are rather of a meane proportion c. Melancholie reigneth in Haruest from the 18. of September vntill the eight of Oct●ber and hath dominion from the ninth houre of the day vntill the third houre of the night is perceaued by these sig●es Fearefulnes without cause dreadfull unaginations Fretfulnes Roughnes of skinne Leannesse Blacknes or wannesse of co●our Insomniati●n Dreames te●●ible Saltnes of the mouth Sollitarines the Pulse little with Vrine more decoloured and thinner then accustomed and hath his mantion and abiding in the Spléene And thus much of the temperature and qualitie of the foure Humours not corrupted or altered by the medling of one with the other How the foure Humours are distributed in mens bodyes THe foure Humours are proportioned and distributed in mens bodyes two manner of wayes that is to wit totally and particularly Totall or generall distribution is when one of them only hath the predomination and superioritie as he in whose body choller soly excéedeth is called Cholericke c. But particularly they are distributed after 12. sundry wayes as followeth In some mens bodyes Choller only excéedeth the other Humors and that man I call Chollericke And in some Choller hath che principall dominion and Melancholy excéedeth the other Humours and such a person I call cholleticke Melancholy But in some men Melancholy hath the soueraigntie and Choller hath