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The physical characteristics of the consumptives were:—-skin smooth, whitish, lentil-coloured, reddish; bright eyes;It seems impossible to decide whether the adjective χαροπός refers here to the brightness of the eyes or to their colour (blue or grey). a leucophlegmaticSee General Introduction, p. xlvi-li, on the humours. Bitter bile was the same as that sometimes called yellow. condition; shoulder-blades projecting like wings. Women too so.This brief phrase seems to mean that the same characteristics marked consumptive women as consumptive men. As to those with a melancholicSee General Introduction, p. xlvi-li, on the humours. Bitter bile was the same as that sometimes called yellow. or a rather sanguineSee General Introduction, p. xlvi-li, on the humours. Bitter bile was the same as that sometimes called yellow. complexion, they were attacked by ardent fevers, phrenitis and dysenteric troubles. Tenesmus affected young, phlegmaticSee General Introduction, p. xlvi-li, on the humours. Bitter bile was the same as that sometimes called yellow. people; the chronic diarrhoea and acrid, greasy stools affected persons of a biliousSee General Introduction, p. xlvi-li, on the humours. Bitter bile was the same as that sometimes called yellow. temperament.
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In all the cases described spring was the worst enemy, and caused the most deaths; summer was the most favourable season, in which fewest died. In autumn and during the season of the Pleiades, on the other hand, there were again deaths, usually on the fourth day. And it seems to me natural that the coming on of summer should have been helpful. For the coming on of winter resolves the diseases of summer, and the coming on of summer removes those of winter. And yet in itself the summer in question was not healthful;Of a good constitution. in fact it was suddenly hot, southerly, and calm. But nevertheless the change from the other constitution proved beneficial.
