distemperature

• ““Be not in this distemperature for me, sovereign Lady,” said Roland; “this young gentleman, being the faithful servant of your Grace, and the brother of Catherine Seyton, bears that about him which will charm down my passion at the hottest.””

  The Abbot

• ““We ARE friends,” repeated the knight; and there was a pause, during which the fiery Saracen paced the tent, like the lion, who, after violent irritation, is said to take that method of cooling the distemperature of his blood, ere he stretches himself to repose in his den.”

  The Talisman

• “But this adventitious melancholy which is here meant, is caused of a hot and dry distemperature, as [2435] Damascen the Arabian lib.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “[2137] Hercules de Saxonia calls this kind of melancholy (ab agitatione spirituum) by a peculiar name, it comes from the agitation, motion, contraction, dilatation of spirits, not from any distemperature of humours, and produceth strong effects.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “If [2622] no symptoms appear about the stomach, nor the blood be misaffected, and fear and sorrow continue, it is to be thought the brain itself is troubled, by reason of a melancholy juice bred in it, or otherwise conveyed into it, and that evil juice is from the distemperature of the part, or left after some inflammation, thus far Piso.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Such a complaint I read of those isles of Cape Verde, fourteen degrees from the Equator, they do male audire: [1520] One calls them the unhealthiest clime of the world, for fluxes, fevers, frenzies, calentures, which commonly seize on seafaring men that touch at them, and all by reason of a hot distemperature of the air.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “Faventinus, will have it proceed from a [2418] hot distemperature of the brain; and [2419] Montaltus cap.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “The heart alters the countenance to good or evil, and distraction of the mind causeth distemperature of the body.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “A great inconvenience comes by variety of dishes, which causeth the precedent distemperature, [2937] than which (saith Avicenna) nothing is worse; to feed on diversity of meats, or overmuch, Sertorius-like, in lucem caenare, and as commonly they do in Muscovy and”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

• “[2668] Herc. de Saxonia doth ascribe this to the several motions in the animal spirits, their dilation, contraction, confusion, alteration, tenebrosity, hot or cold distemperature, excluding all material humours.”

  Anatomy of Melancholy

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