Nutriment (26-30)

Signs: tickling, ache, rupture, mind, sweat, sediment in urine, rest, tossing, condition[*] of the eyes, imaginations, jaundice, hiccoughs, epilepsy, blood entire, sleep, from both these and all other things in accordance with nature, and everything else of a similar nature that tends to harm or help. Pains of the whole or of a part, indications of severity: of the one, greater severity, of the other, less, and from both come signs of greater severity, and from both come signs of less.

Sweet, not sweet; sweet in power, like water, sweet to the taste, like honey. Signs of either are sores, eyes and tastings, which can also distinguish degrees. Sweet to sight, in colours and in combinations generally, sweet to a greater or less degree.

Porousness of a body for transpiration healthy for those from whom more is taken; denseness of body for transpiration unhealthy for those from whom less is taken. Those who transpire freely are weaker, healthier, and recover easily; those who transpire hardly are stronger before they are sick, but on falling sick they make difficult recovery. These for both whole and part.

The lungs draw a nourishment which is the opposite of that of the body, all other parts draw the same.

Beginning of nutriment of breath, nostrils, mouth, throat, lungs, and the transpiratory system generally. Beginning of nutriment, both wet and dry, mouth, oesophagus, stomach. The more ancient nutriment, through the epigastrium, where the navel is.