Book 2
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ProdicusProdicus of Ceos, a Sophist, contemporary of Socrates. also, when in his book On the Nature of Man he gives the name phlegm to that element in the humours which has been burned or, as it were, over-roasted, while using a different terminology, still keeps to the fact just as the others do; this man's innovations in nomenclature have also been amply done justice to by Plato.Plato, Timaeus, 83-85, passim Thus, the white-coloured substance which everyone else calls phlegm, and which Prodicus calls blenna [mucus],cf. the term blennorrhoea, which is still used. is the well-known cold, moist humour which collects mostly in old people and in those who have been chilledcf. the Scotch term colded for affected with a cold; Germ. erkältet. in some way, and not even a lunatic could say that this was anything else than cold and moist.
