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by gathering of humours & rume. The humours come from the head the pipes of the throate, and they maketh there a poſtume: and if the matter bée cholarike and coniealed, it ſtifleth & ouer-commeth the body ſpéedely. For as Conſtantine ſaith, It ſtraighteth the breath, ſo that the ſicke man may ſcarcely take meate and drinke, and is full of griefe and ſorrowe. And if the matter bée of bloud, the ſicke man ſéemeth full of corruption in the bodie,[1] red in the face, the vaines be full, and the pulſes: the ſwelling is hot and ſwéet by plentie of bloud. And if the matter be of redde Colera,[2] then the forehead aketh, and hath great anguiſh. Then is great heat with great thirſt, and bitterneſſe in taſt. And if the matter be of Flegma.[3] then the tongue not onely aketh but ſwelleth, and is ſofte. And if it be of falt fleame, all that commeth in the roote ſeemeth ſalt: & the voice is made like as it were the voyce of young whelpes. For by drineſſe of the ſalt fleame, the arterie Trachea is made ſtraight, as ſayth Conſtantine. And it happeneth, that this matter is ſometime all gréeued within the ſkinne, that departeth the way of the breath, that is called Trachea arteria,[4] from the way of the meate and drinke, that is called Iſophagus, and brédeth Squinanci, that ſlayeth in one daie: For by preſſing and thruſling togethers the waie of the breath: the frée paſſage of the ayre that ſhoulde come to the heart, is forbid and let, and by wringing and preſſing of Iſophagi, the way of meate and drinke is forbid & let. And ſometime this matter is gathered within, and ſometime without, and then againe it is called Squinanci and is not ſo perillous as the other. And ſometime all the matter is without, and is called Sinancia, and is leſſe perillous. In all theſe is ſtrong ach of the throate, and namely in the firſt with ſtifling of the voice, and ſtraightneſſe of breath: and ſo full the ſinewes be of Squinantia, and the chéekes haue ſo the crampe, that vnneth the téeth may be opened with an hammer. And the tongue is ſo ſhortned that it is vnneth drawen out or neuer. In all theſe euills that grieue the throat, ſwift breathing is a good token: for then the waye of the breath is not ouerpreſſed. Therfore it is not in daunger of ſtiffling. Nothing is more to dread in this euill then looſing of breath: For a beaſt may not be without breath the. 27.*[5] part of an houre, without great perill. Theſe euills and many other the throate ſuffereth, as Conſtantine ſaith, as with whelks, puſhes, & ſwellings, immoderate thirſt, hoarſeneſſe of voice, that commeth of ſo much moiſture ſhedde in the way of the pipe of the throate, and letteth the voice: and ſometime taketh it away, and roughneſſe of voice that commeth of drineſſe of aire, either of the bodie, of the meate and of drinke, either of duſt that maketh the inſtrument of the voyce rough. This that is ſaid of the voice ſufficeth at this time.
Of the necke. Chap. 25.
THE Necke is called Collum in Latine,[6] becauſe it is great and round, & beareth and ſuſteineth the head. The formoſt parte is called Gula, and the hinder Ceruix, the nowle, as ſayth Iſidore: And hath that name, for by that parte the marrow commeth to the ridge bone. Therefore Ceruix is ſayd. Quaſi via cerebri, as it were the way of the braine, as ſayth Iſidore. The necke is a round member, and meane betwéene the bodye and the head, and is boanie, made and compoſed of many bones and ſinewes. It is boanie to be the more ſtrong to ſuſteine and beare the head. It is ſinewy to make quicke mouing, and to ſend féeling to the neather partes of the bodie. The necke receiueth and taketh of the braine influence of ye vertue of mouing, and ſendeth it by ſinewes to the neather parts of the bodie. The necke ought to haue a concord and proportion with the head. For if the head bée temperatlye great, and the nape of the necke in meaſurable quantitie, it betokeneth lightnes of complection and diſpoſition, as ſayth Conſtantine. And if the head be little, & the necke great, not proportionate to the quantitie of the head, it betokeneth great ſuperfluitie of matter, and default of the