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to have less burning fire, and it is extinguished entirely if placed under the flame. For here, too, the greater fades and obstructs the principle. Contrary to this, and for the same reason, things that burn are consumed faster in winter than in summer. Why burning things burn faster in winter than in summer. For the summer makes the fire weaker, just as the sun itself and the light of the fire do. But the winter, gathering the surrounding cold of the air—and everything gathered is strong—is different. Hence, even in lanterns, the light appears more extensively. Generally, the power is stronger when it is concentrated and collected, just as the north wind. For it happens more, and many such things can be taken from heat; for instance, springs and baths are hotter in winter than in summer, and during north winds rather than south winds. For the heat is constricted and north winds enclosed in the winter by the surrounding air. And the body digests food more, and generally, they are strongest in winter, because the heat is gathered and antiperistasis reaction/counter-action occurs. From this cause, cold also seems in some places to do the same thing as heat, and simply, in its extremes. For they say that cold ripens fruits, and that both the heat and the cold burn them, though they do not speak correctly. For the cold burns and ripens in this way, not primarily, but by accident, because it compresses and drives the heat toward that which is working, and being greater and stronger, it burns, or [it acts] with all its power. Why cold water is poured on those who are fainting. And because they pour cold water on those who are fainting when the condition is cold. For it gathers [the heat] and prevents its exit by blocking the pores and... Why cold seems to do the same as heat in some places. in the