Each of our members has its own proper temperament and faculty; but it is
not necessary for us to describe the characters of all, since they are
unlimited, and we propose to give only a brief system of instruction.
Having treated of those which principally affect the whole body, of the
others we shall merely direct them to be judged of in the same way,
forming an opinion of the temperaments from their excretions, their
other energies and symptoms. It is now time to treat of the cure of the
intemperaments of the whole body.
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COMMENTARY. On these consult Galen (de Temperamentis); Haly Abbas (Theor.
iii); Avicenna (i, 1, 3.) We may mention that, generally speaking,
all those parts which possess much blood were supposed to be of a hot
temperament, and those which have little of a cold.