easant, acceptable, and merry, but not witty; choleric
are too swift in motion, and furious, impatient of contemplation, deceitful
wits: melancholy men have the most excellent wits, but not all; this humour
may be hot or cold, thick, or thin; if too hot, they are furious and mad:
if too cold, dull, stupid, timorous, and sad: if temperate, excellent,
rather inclining to that extreme of heat, than cold." This sentence of his
will agree with that of Heraclitus, a dry light makes a wise mind,
temperate heat and dryness are the chief causes of a good wit; therefore,
saith Aelian, an elephant is the wisest of all brute beasts, because his
brain is driest, _et ob atrae, bilis capiam_: this reason Cardan approves,
_subtil. l. 12._ Jo. Baptista Silvaticus, a physician of Milan, in his
first controversy, hath copiously handled this question: Rulandus in his
problems, Caelius Rhodiginus, _lib. 17._ Valleriola _6to. narrat. med._
Herc. de Saxonia, _Tract. posth. de mel. cap. 3._ Lodovicus Mercatus, _de
inter. morb. cur. lib. cap. 17._ Baptista Porta, _Physiog. lib. 1. c. 13._
and many others.

Weeping, sighing, laughing, itching, trembling, sweating, blushing, hearing
and seeing strange noises, visions, wind, crudity, are motions of the body,
depending upon these precedent motions of the mind: neither are tears,
affections, but actions (as Scaliger holds) [2675]"the voice of such as are
afraid, trembles, because the heart is shaken" (_Conimb. prob. 6. sec. 3.
de som._) why they stutter or falter in their speech, Mercurialis and
Montaltus, _cap. 17._ give like reasons out of Hippocrates, [2676]"dryness,
which makes the nerves of the tongue torpid." Fast speaking (which is a
symptom of some few) Aetius will have caused [2677] "from abundance of
wind, and swiftness of imagination:" [2678]"baldness comes from excess of
dryness," hirsuteness from a dry temperature. The cause of much waking in a
dry brain, continual meditation, discontent, fears and cares, that suffer
not the mind to be at rest, incontinency is from wind, and a hot liver,
Montanus, _cons. 26._ Rumbling in the guts is caused from wind, and wind
from ill concoction, weakness of natural heat, or a distempered heat and
cold; [2679]Palpitation of the heart from vapours, heaviness and aching
from the same cause. That the belly is hard, wind is a cause, and of that
leaping in many parts. Redness of the face, and itching, as if they were
flea-bitten, or stung with pismires, from a