fumosities

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Accordingly, deprived of the means of mitigating its heat or ventilating its fumosities, the spirits within it become unduly heated, and a consuming fire is generated in the entire body.

Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
Fumosities that are drawn out of the waters and off the earth by strength of heat of heaven are drawn to the nethermost part of the middle space of the air, and there by coldness of the place they are made thick, and then by heat dissolving and departing the moisture thereof and not wasting all, these fumosities are resolved and fall and turn into rain and showers.

Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902