Nutriment (46-50)

Power of nutriment superior to mass; mass of nutriment superior to power; both in moist things and in dry.

It takes away and adds not the same thing; it takes away from one, and adds to another, the same thing.

Pulsations of veins and breathing of the lungs according to age, harmonious and unharmonious, signs of disease and of health, and of health more than of disease, and of disease more than of health. For breath too is nutriment.

Liquid nutriment more easily changed than solid; solid nutriment more easily changed than liquid. That which is hardly altered is hard of digestion, and that which is easily added is easy of digestion.

And for such as need a quick reinforcement, a liquid remedy is best for recovery of power; for such as need a quicker, a remedy through smell; for those who need a slower reinforcement, solid nutriment.