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a moistening diet should be primarily established, which approaches analepsia restorative treatment.

LXIX.
Therefore, an air should be chosen that tends toward the moist and somewhat toward the cool: let sleep be longer than usual: rest should be enjoined, exercise avoided, and immoderate affections of the mind strictly avoided, such as sadness, fear, and so on. Let the use of fresh-water baths be frequent: more moist and nourishing food and drink should be used.

LXX.
But if a bilious humor has redundant with a hot intemperance of the body, it is fitting to purge it with appropriate medicines, such as aerial honey, cassia fistula, rhubarb, and so on.

LXXI.
With the body purged, cupping glasses are to be applied to the lower parts, frictions and ligatures are to be applied, and the remaining medicines that can alter the blood—both those taken internally and those applied externally—should be administered.

LXXII.
If menses are retained due to a cold intemperance of the body, we shall use warmer foods and medicines, and we shall mandate stronger exercises and labors.

LXXIII.
Humors of cold intemperance that are thick, cold, and viscous, causing obstructions (a case which is most frequent among us), must be attenuated and incised for as long as it takes for the entire obstruction to be dissolved.

LXXIIII.
Therefore, these humors should first be prepared with an attenuating diet.