[253] i.e. bile.
[254] i.e. deprived of its bile.
[255] Here it is rather the living organism we consider than the particular food that is put into it.
[256] Supreme importance of the “soil.” cf. Introduction, [pp. xii]. and [xxxi].
[257] Aristotle, Hist. Animal., iii. xix.; Plato, Timaeus, 80 E.
[258] Philotimus succeeded Diocles and Praxagoras, who were successive leaders of the Hippocratic school. cf. p. 51, [note 1].
[259] Lit. phenomena.
[260] i.e. living organisms; cf. p. 47, [note 1].
[261] Erasistratus rejected the idea of innate heat; he held that the heat of the body was introduced from outside.
[262] As a bubo is a swelling in the groin, we must suppose that the wound referred to would be in the leg or lower abdomen.