[283] Erasistratus on the uselessness of the spleen. cf. [p. 143].
[284] The Empirical school, cf. p. [193].
[285] Enlargement and suppuration (?) of spleen associated with toxaemia or “cacochymy.”
[286] Lit. “melancholic.”
[287] i.e. the combination of sensible qualities which we call black bile. cf. p. 8, [note 3].
[288] Thus Galen has demonstrated the functions of the spleen both deductively and inductively. For another example of the combined method cf. Book III., chaps, i. and ii.; cf. also Introd. [p. xxxii].
[289] i.e. its innate heat.
[290] Lit. lecithoid.
[291] Note that there can be “normal” black bile.
[292] The term food here means the food as introduced into the stomach; the term nutriment (trophé) means the same food in the digested condition, as it is conveyed to the tissues. cf. pp. 41-43. Note idea of imperfectly oxidized material being absorbed by the spleen. cf. p. 214, [note 1].