ABSTRACT
Again, information concerning touch, or feeling. The feel of blood is great (or, full), and sticky, and thick. The feel of black bile is flat and hard. The feel of phlegm is narrow and soft. The feel of venom and bile is great (or, full) and dense. The feel of winds confined in the belly is like that of leaping animals (?). The feel of the stomach and lungs when thou pressest thy fingers under the middle [thereof] is that they palpitate. The feel of death is terrifying and disturbing. The feel of the veins:-Place thy fingers by the side of the thumb of the left hand I of the sick man, and touch the veins; if he Page 539 draweth himself upwards and leapeth up, like a man who wisheth to flee at all costs, he is suffering great agony, and his fever is strong; and if he is slow to move, and leapeth up, know that his sickness is not acute; and if he leapeth downwards, his bowels are loose.
