An easy Method to know the Causes and Signs of the Humour most ruleth in the Body, and to avoid thereby things hurtful: as also to enable men to give better account of the state of their Bodies, when they are diseased to the Physician, and not hazard the Lives of themselves and their Friends by only urging him to prophecy (and that often falsely) the Disease by only the inspection of Urine.  
THe antecedent or foregoing signs of fullness are such causes as breed plenty of blood, 
Antecedent signs of fullness,  such as are,  
The good temper of the whole Body, but chief of the Liver and Heart, with a moderately hot and moist temper.  
The Age increasing, for Children and such as are constituted betwixt them both, have much blood, because they are not far distant from the principles of Nature.  
Spring season, Because in the Spring the blood is most plentiful, for the cold then remitts, and moisture puts forth itself.  
A Region temperate, but chief.  
A more liberal diet of meats of good juice, and well tempered, as too much plenty and affluency of the best meat and wine, a life void of cares, full of rejoicing, with moderate and seasonable exercise, and sleeping mean.  
Suppressing of customary vacuation of blood of its own accord, or medicinal a long time intermitted, suggests matter to fullness.  
The consequent or following signs of fullness of blood, 
Consequent signs of fullness.  are incidents which demonstrate plenty of blood to be contained and reign in the body: such as are  
The colour of the face and body ruddy beyond custom, or mingled with red and white.  
An equal swelling of all the veins,  
The exte●●●●f the filled vessels and stretched with fullness of blood ma● 〈◊〉 the view.  
An exten●●●● wearisomeness coming of itself, wherein the body and all the joints through weariness are hardly moved, and the hand is hardly contracted into the fist: For a distending wearisomeness comes, when as the greater veins swelling with plenty, empty themselves into the lesser, whence it happens that the muscles are filled and distended.  
An overfull mass of body, of abundance of flesh springs from plenty of blood.  
The habit of the body meanly fleshly, bedewed with a mild, gentle, and breathing heat: because a habit moverately fleshy, betokens a temperate nature which is full of blood.  
The manners of mind pleasant and sweet, calm and gentle: For a temperate and mild disposition of mind, is a mark of a temperate habit of body.  
Simpleness and stupidity of mind for simplicity and stupidness of mind proceeds from blood; heaviness of the head, by reason of plenty of vapours ascending to the brain.  
Deep and for the most part pleasing sleep, in the which things are represented by dreams full of joyfulness and pleasantness, shining like light, or adorned with flowers.  
The pulse great, strong and full. For the veins being full the conjunction of their mouths with the Arteries, do transfuse some of their plenty into them: but the Arteries being full, do yield such a pulse, not only in the wrist, but in the temples also, the fingers, and the extremity of each part, conspicuous by a trouble some beating.  
The breathing is more difficult and thicker than of custom, chief after exercise, because the muscles of the breast through plenty of blood, are more slow in their motion, whence the breathing is more frequent in respect of its use, but lesser because the inward capacity of the breast is streightened.  
Speedy casting forth of blood by stool, the haemorrhoides, monthly evacuations, urine, spittle or nose.  
A facility in bearing of much bleeding.  
Much sweat continually flowing through the whole course of a disease, doth deelare the presence of fullness.  
Moreover, if the party diseased hath been accustomed to be vexed frequently with diseases coming of fullness, as a continent fever, inflammation: for all inflammation cometh by afflux of blood.  
Cacochimy or ill juice is three fold, Choleric, 
Antecedent signs of choler.  Melancholic, and Phlegmatic. Ill juice proceeding of Choler, ariseth from such antecedent causes as heap up plenty of choler. Such are  
A temper hot and dry, for in men of hot and dry tempers, much Choler is engendered, because the choleric humour is agreeable to their complexion.  
The age constant and flourishing, such as endures from the 25 year to the thirtieth, for yellow choler exceeds in the consisting age, because the natural heat is much more dry and intense, than it was before, a great part of the first inbred humour, wherewith it was overwhelmed as it were, being consumed.  
The summer season, for in summer Choler is most abounding, because blood by the encompassing air is rendered more hot and dry.  
The dry constitution of the time; for dryness effects a bilious quality in the humours.  
A region hot and dry, but chief a diet foregoing hot and dry.  
Likewise, exercises, labour, anger, cares, watching, abstinences and wants, heap up much Choler: as also, voluntary evacuation of choler suppressed, or such as was accustomed to be avoided by art intermitted, by vomit, the belly, Urine, or sweats.  
The consequent signs of choler, 
The consequent signs of choler.  immoderately exceeding in the body are;  
The colour of the face, eyes, and whole body pale, yellow or citrin colour, approaching to that of the yellow Jaundice. Or,  
Black, for if the temperament do much exceed in heat, the colour appears black.  
The habit of body dry, lean, and slender, for slender or spare men for the most part are choleric. Also haiery bodies, for the temper hot and dry is very hairy.  
The hair yellow, for yellow hair is the dreggy excrement of yellow Choler.  
Much more also the hair that is black, for the hair becomes black when the vapour being burnt by the force of heat, the excrement is changed into an exact smuttiness. But yellow when as it is less burnt.  
The largeness of the veins being distended by the force of heat; for they who have large veins are of a hotter nature, but contrarily they are colder whose veins are smaller, and stricter. For it is the work of heat to dilate, and as it were puff them up.  
A heat to the touch, smart and biting.  
Swiftness to anger, ptopension to wrath and revenge, promptness of mind, and cheerfulness.  
The senses are quick, sharp, and nimble, the wit sharp and industrious. For sharpness of wit, and industry proceed from the billious humour.  
Sleep little and light, and with much toss and tumblings unquiet.  
Watch almost continual: for immoderate watch proceed either from the distemper of the brain alone, or from abundance of Choleric humour.  
Dreams full of War, fury and fire.  
The pulses vehement, swift, frequent and hard.  
Bitterness of taste, inappetency, vehement and unsatiable thirst, gnawings in the mouth of the stomach, and from thence falling sickness, Convulsions, faintings through pain of the mouth of the stomach.  
Vomiting and dejection by stool choleric.  
The belly daily bound.  
The Urine yellow, fiery, sharp, and with small Choleric diseases frequent. As the disease called Cholera, the Fever tertian, and burning, creeping sores and fretting, choleric bushes breaking forth over the whole body.  
The purging of Choler profitable, and easy of bearing, and the use of cool things grateful and delightful, because they bridle the fierceness of Choler, as hot things exasperated it: Whence a choleric disease, by administering hot things, is made more fiery, 
Antecedent signs of melancholy.  as on the other part, by cool things it is remitted.  
Cacochymy, melancholic is known first by the Causes which congest a larger portion of melancholy and black choler in the body; of which sort are.  
A natural temper cold and dry, with the weakness of the spleen, or a hot temper indeed at the first, but by change turned into cold. For if any which before was hot and dry, by adustion hath generated much black choler, he verily is besides that he is dry, and cold, forthwith also melancholic.  
The age inclining, which is extended from the Thirtieth year of age to the Forty nineth; for Choler adust aboundeth in the declining age, because succeeding to youth, of all the ages the most Choleric, receives unto it Choler adust.  
The Autumnal Season, forasmuch as Choler adust is plentiful in the fall of the leaf, because this succeeding the Summer of all the parts of the year, the hottest and driest entertains from it burned Choler.  
The manner of life, and frequent use of gross and earthly nourishment, such as are course brown bread, Beef, Hare, Goat's flesh, Venison, but most of all meats over-falted, gross Wines, dark, colour red, ill brewed Beer, or not well defaecated, old Cheese.  
A sad condition of life, enfolded in many cares, businesses, contemplations and study of Letters, no refreshing or rejoicing the mind being interposed, or bodily exercise; For under this the natural heat languisheth, and the whole parts of the body wax gross, being lulled asleep by sluggishuesse.  
The customary vacuation of melancholy suppressed, whether it was voluntary, as by the haemorrhoides, the Terms, by the Belly, or by the Varices or scab, or by Medicaments accustomed.  
The colour of the face and the whole body, dark, brown, obscure and swartish; sometimes it is Universal and equal in the whole body, sometimes mured with certain spots.  
Hardness of the Spleen; Swelling, a weighty pain.  
The habit of the body dry and lean.  
The Aspect fised, horrid and mournful.  
Fear and sadness, silence, solitariness, a vain forging of things that are not, constancy and stability of mind. Because that which is constant and fised in the mind, proceeds of melancholy.  
A mind slow indeed to wrath, but fierce, and hardly appeasable.  
Sleep turbulent, floating and tossed with horrid dreams, Visions of dark things, Devils, Torments, Death, dead Carcases  
Graves, which things are full of terror.  
The pulse is little, slow, rare and hardish.  
The appetite is often corrupted, yet sometimes the hunger is like dogs hunger, sour matter, lining and sucking the stomach.  
Melancholy voluntarily breaking forth through over-plenty, by vomit, stool, urine, sweats, or the hard knot or swell in the veins.  
The Urine if no melancholy issue with the urine, is thin and white, but if any of it flow forth with the urine gross and black.  
Melancholy diseases frequent.  
Medicaments that draw melancholy are conducefull, and easing the diseased: also all diet that breeds good and thin juice, is helpful, but the contrary is hurtful.  

Antecedent signs of Phlegm.  The knowledge of phlegmatic ill juice is taken first from the causes which make large provision of phlegm; such as are.  
A temper cold and dry.  
Old Age, which is extended from the 49th year, to the lives end. For in old age there is congested much excrementitious phlegm, through the want of natural heat.  
The winter season: Because the Winter fills the body with phlegm, by reason of multitude of rain.  
Constitution of the season moist: for the moisture of the ambient Air heaps up phlegmatic superfluities.  
The immoderate use of cold and moist nourishment, and overlarge drinking waterish Liquors.  
A diet overfull, unseasonably taken in, the former not being digested, likewise all satiety and gluttony.  
A sedentary life led in slothful idleness, specially in places waterish and moist.  
Long sleep, especially after eating.  
The suppression of phlegm wont to be voided either by mouth or belly, which was long accustomed either by itself or by Art.  
The conseqnent discoverers of phlegm ruling in the body, 
Conseqent signs of Phlegm.  are such as are,  
The colour of face and body whitish, sometimes of Lead-colour, or bluish, the face somewhat swollen, and the whole habit of the body vast and overgrown with fat, forasmuch as gross and fat folk are cold and phlegmatic; for fat is always generated by the refrigeration of the habit.  
The veins and arteries small and narrow passaged, because they contain but little blood.  
The skin white, soft, and without hair; for the temper cold and moist is exceeding smooth.  
Hair white; for white hair comes of phlegm.  
The feminine Sex for women, are by nature colder than men.  
The manners and mind, and all the motions of the body slow with heaviness and sloth, the senses dull, the understanding blockish.  
Sleep is deep and heavy.  
Dreams filled with water, rain, snow and drowning.  
Heaviness of the head.  
The pulse small, slow, rare, soft.  
Slow concoction, sour belshing, loathing after eating.  
The Urine is white or pale, now thin, now thick, and troubled with much settling.  
Phlegm voluntarily breaking forth by vomit or dejection, and a body overflowing with moisture.  
White flux in Women.  
The custom and frequency of phlegmatic diseases, as swell coming of phlegm, rheums and the like.  
Whatsoever vacuation of phlegm, whether it shall fall to be by Art, or of itself, is conducefull, meats, and hot drinks, and all heating causes occurring are pleasing and profitable.  
But salt phlegm, since it acquires unnatural heat either by mixture of choler, or putrefaction introduced: as it obtaineth the mixed causes of choler and phlegm, so after a manner it hath their mixed signs. For the most part it is known, by the taste, itchings, and fowl scabs. 
Ancecedent signs of Wind.   
Plenty of winds are raised in the body by a cold and moist stomach, together with imbecility of heat, whether it proceed of simple distemper, or that it be contracted by the fault of the humours.  
The Spleen swelling, and obstructed with melancholy, offending the condoction of the stomach.  
Windy meats, and raw fruits, as Chestnutts, beans, Mushrums.  
Immoderate drinking, and, and the overmuch floating of the stomach with liquid meats, as aiso cramming and gluttony.  
Idleness, much sleep, the age, region and constitution of the season cold. 
Consequent signs.   
When as by the former causes much wind is gathered together, the stomach and gut Colon, chief on the left side, are distended, and roar, as if they were tossed with the winds: Extensive pains coast about the whole body, wand'ring, as it were, too and fro.  
Frequent break forth of Wind are heard both by the mouth and belly, to which ease speedily succeedeth: as also frequent sing, or ring in the ears.  
Great proness to colic pains, and other diseases psoceeding of Wind.  
Dreams of things swiftly running or flying, sometimes also of thunder and tempests.   

POSTSCRIPT.  
I Have by me a fare larger Tract on this subject, but this being more easy for common capacities, I thought fit to present it first 〈◊〉 view; As this shall find acceptance, and I encouragement, I shall send to light matters of greater moment than these.  
Farewell. That I may not seem to be a plagiary, the Author in Latin is Frambesarius.  
FINIS.