1, Oxford, 1910; (b)
Withington, London, 1894.
(26) Thomas Phaer: Regiment of Life, London, 1546.
As the famous Regimen Sanitatis of Salernum, the popular family
hand-book of the Middle Ages, says:
Foure Humours raigne within our bodies wholly,
And these compared to foure elements.(27)
(27) The Englishman's Doctor, or the Schoole of Salerne, Sir
John Harington's translation, London, 1608, p. 2. Edited by
Francis R. Packard, New York, 1920, p. 132. Harington's book
originally appeared dated: London 1607. (Hoe copy in the
Henry E. Huntington Library.)
According to Littre, there is nowhere so strong a statement of these
views in the genuine works of Hippocrates, but they are found at
large in the Hippocratic writings, and nothing can be clearer than the
following statement from the work "The Nature of Man": "The body of
man contains in itself blood and phlegm and yellow bile and black bile,
which things are in the natural constitution of his body, and the
cause of sickness and of health. He is healthy when they are in
proper proportion between one another as regards mixture and force and
quantity, and when they are well mingled together; he becomes sick when
one of these is diminished or increased in amount, or is separated in
the body from its proper mixture, and not properly mingled with all the
others.
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