And as the Earth is colde and dry: so Melancholy is colde and dry."(26) (25) The student who wishes a fuller account is referred to the histories of (a) Neuburger, Vol.

1, Oxford, 1910; (b) Withington, London, 1894.
(26) Thomas Phaer: Regiment of Life, London, 1546.
As the famous Regimen Sanitatis of Salernum, the popular family hand-book of the Middle Ages, says: Foure Humours raigne within our bodies wholly, And these compared to foure elements.( 27) (27) The Englishman's Doctor, or the Schoole of Salerne, Sir John Harington's translation, London, 1608, p.2.

Edited by Francis R.Packard, New York, 1920, p.132.

Harington's book originally appeared dated: London 1607.

(Hoe copy in the Henry E.Huntington Library.) According to Littre, there is nowhere so strong a statement of these views in the genuine works of Hippocrates, but they are found at large in the Hippocratic writings, and nothing can be clearer than the following statement from the work "The Nature of Man": "The body of man contains in itself blood and phlegm and yellow bile and black bile, which things are in the natural constitution of his body, and the cause of sickness and of health.