Artemidorus wrote: “For to vomit much bloud, and of a good colour, is good for him which is poore, for he shall get store of money.”
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Artemidorus; English translation attributed to Robert Wood
The Interpretation of Dreams · 1644; EEBO-TCP A25906 transcription
Of vomiting of Bloud, and of cholerick and melancholy humours. · Book 1, encoded section 22 · Text transcription · marked gaps
Original source (English)
For to vomit much bloud, and of a good colour, is good for him which is poore, for he shall get store of money. It is also very good for him which hath no children, and whose kindred are in a strange Country: the first shall see a childe of his own: the other, his kindred returning home: to carrie Bloud, is not good for him that would be hidden: to vomit corrupt bloud, [illegible passage] [illegible passage] is sicknesse to all: to cast a little bloud in spitting, foretels sedition as I have known by experience. To vomit fleagme (be the humor chollerick or melancholly) is good for him which is in misery, anguish, or sicknesse: for it foretels and end of all his evils, To vomit meate signifyeth hurt: also, to vomit his bowels, foretels the death of children to father and mother, and to them which have no children, the losse of the dearest thing they have among theyr goods: to a sick person it is death.
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