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  • [1376] Some except honey; to those that are cold, it may be tolerable, but [1377] Dulcia se in bilem vertunt, (sweets turn into bile,) they are obstructive.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ac pituitam et bilem a corpore (11. de leg.) omnes vult exterminari.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Syrupo helleborato et aliis quae ad atram bilem pertinent.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Senes plerunque delirasse in senecta, that old men familiarly dote, ob atram bilem, for black choler, which is then superabundant in them: and Rhasis, that Arabian physician, in his Cont. lib.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Intemperies innata exurens. flavam bilem ac sanguinem in melancholiam convertens.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ira bilem movet, sanguinem adurit, vitales spiritus accendit. moestitia universum corpus infrigidat, calorem innatum extinguit, appetituin destruit, concoctionem impedit, corpus exsiccat, intellectum pervertit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In 9 Rhasis, atram bilem parit, et visum debilitat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Qui melancholicus factus plane desipiebat, multaque stulte loquebaturr, huic exhibitum 12.gr. stibium, quod paulo post atram bilem ex alvo eduxit (ut ego vidi, qui vocatus tanquam ad miraculum adfui testari possum,) et ramenta tunquam carnis dissecta in partes totum excrementum tanquam sanguinem nigerrimum repraesentabat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • This common misery of theirs must needs distract, make them discontent and melancholy, as ordinarily they are, wayward, peevish, like a weary traveller, for [2300] Fames et mora bilem in nares conciunt, still murmuring and repining: Ob inopiam morosi sunt, quibus est male, as Plutarch quotes out of

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et quia bilem illam scaturientem ad æs etiam concoquendum idoneam esse estimabam, unde æs alienum, ut minoris pretii, haberem, circumspexi.

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

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