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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: belly, and is driven out of the body like an exile from a state in which
there has been civil war; whence arise diarrhoeas and dysenteries, and all
such disorders. When the constitution is disordered by excess of fire,
continuous heat and fever are the result; when excess of air is the cause,
then the fever is quotidian; when of water, which is a more sluggish
element than either fire or air, then the fever is a tertian; when of
earth, which is the most sluggish of the four, and is only purged away in a
four-fold period, the result is a quartan fever, which can with difficulty
be shaken off.
Such is the manner in which diseases of the body arise; the disorders of
the soul, which depend upon the body, originate as follows. We must
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