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¶Of fleame. Cap. 9.
ohannicus ſaith, that fleame is an humour halfe ſedde by working of vnperfect heate, of colde matter & moyſt by kinde gendred. And ''Ariſtotle lib. 15.'' ſaith, that fleame is an vndiſſolued ſuperfluitie of meate. The ſame is matter of bloud and of fleame: but they bée diuers by more ſeething or leſſe: and ſo of fleame is made bloud by more ſtrēgth of working heate, and not returning. Bloud tourneth neuer into fleame, as cholar chaungeth into melancholy: but not againward, as ſaith Auicen. Fleme is an humour kindlye colde, moyſt and weariſh: and kinde ſendeth that humor into the members and lymmes to be made pure, that the body be nouriſhed by that humour defied. It is to note, that ſome fleme is vnkindly and ſome kindly. Kindly fleame is colde, moyſt, and white in color, and fléeting in ſubſtance, of ſauour ſomewhat ſwéete in taſt, eyther all weariſh and vnſauourie. It is bred in the lyuer, where is the place of heate. And it is apte to be tourned and chaunged into bloude: and when the chaunge is full made, the body is ſuſtayned thereby. And though fleame of it ſelfe be thicke and vnſauery by ſtrength of heate that chaungeth it, yet it taketh the lykneſſe and ſauour of bloude, that is ſwéete: as appeareth by the fleame, that is called ſwéete fleame, And ſo for the néereneſſe and lykeneſſe that fleame hath with bloud, fleame is néedefull to all the lymmes of the bodye. And therfore prouident kinde, made fleame to paſſe with the bloude, through the veynes of all the bodye, both for néede & for profite.

For as Conſtantine ſayeth, If that bloud fayleth, heate diſſolueth fleame: For it taketh héede to féede the members and the lymmes thereby. And ſo Fleame is nobler than Cholera or Melancholia. For theſe may not be ruled to the bréeding of bloude of them. And by the benefite of bloude, all the lymmes of the bodye preuayle and bee fedde.