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55HUMORAL THEORY IN THE MEDIEVAL NORTH
[Blood increases in man in the
spring, red blood in summer, black
blood in the autumn, but phlegm in
winter.]
10. Þetta skíptiz ok olldrum. Vari er
með bloði mestr með bỏrnum. til
fjortianda vetrar. siðan rauða bloð
til .v. vetra. ok .xx. ok þaðan af
bloð með svarta bloði mest til .lxx.
vetra meðan maðr er a bezta alldri.
Siþan er vari mestr með órvosvm.
ok fellr þui slefa oruósum sem
bornum. (182:4–9)
[these are additionally divided
by ages. Phlegm is, with blood,
the greatest in children to the
fourteenth winter. then red
blood to five winters and twenty.
and from then on blood with
black blood is the greatest to
seventy winters, while a man is
in his best age. then phlegm is
greatest among decrepit men.
And therefore, drivel falls from
decrepit men like in children.]
[Blood increases in the spring time,
from the 8th of February to the 8th
of May and for ninety-one days.
Red bile in the summer, from the
8th of May to the 8th of August
and for ninety days. Black bile
in the autumn, from the 8th of
August to the 8th of November
and for ninety-two days. Phlegm,
however, in the winter, from the
8th of November to the 8th of
february and for ninety-two days.]
10. dividuntur etiam hi humores
quattuor per quattuor aetates, id
est flegma in pueris cum sanguine
ab ineunte aetate usque in annos
XIIII, exinde cholera rubea dom-
inatur cum parte sanguinis in
iuvenibus usque ad annos XXV.83
exinde usque in annos XLII84
maxima pars sanguinis dom-
inatur cum cholera nigra. exinde
usque ad summam aetatem sicut
in pueris85 flegma dominatur.
(487:20–488:6)
[these four humours are addi-
tionally divided by four ages,
that is, phlegm in children,
with blood, from the beginn-
ing of the lifetime until the age
of fourteen; after that red bile
dominates with a portion of
blood in youth until the age of
twenty-five. after that up until
the age of forty-two, blood dom-
inates to the greatest extant,
with black bile. thereafter, and
to the end of the lifetime, just as
in children, phlegm dominates.]
83 usque in annos XXV] usque 35. uel 4. PS.
84 usque in annos XLII] − PS.
85 sicut in pueris] − PS.