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The physical characteristics of the consumptives were:—-skin smooth, whitish, lentil-coloured, reddish; bright eyes;It seems impossible to decide whether the adjective χαροπός refers here to the brightness of the eyes or to their colour (blue or grey). a leucophlegmaticSee General Introduction, p. xlvi-li, on the humours. Bitter bile was the same as that sometimes called yellow. condition; shoulder-blades projecting like wings. Women too so.This brief phrase seems to mean that the same characteristics marked consumptive women as consumptive men. As to those with a melancholicSee General Introduction, p. xlvi-li, on the humours. Bitter bile was the same as that sometimes called yellow. or a rather sanguineSee General Introduction, p. xlvi-li, on the humours. Bitter bile was the same as that sometimes called yellow. complexion, they were attacked by ardent fevers, phrenitis and dysenteric troubles. Tenesmus affected young, phlegmaticSee General Introduction, p. xlvi-li, on the humours. Bitter bile was the same as that sometimes called yellow. people; the chronic diarrhoea and acrid, greasy stools affected persons of a biliousSee General Introduction, p. xlvi-li, on the humours. Bitter bile was the same as that sometimes called yellow. temperament.
