1. Nutriment and form of nutriment, one and many. One, inasmuch as its kind is one; form varies with moistness or dryness. These foods too have their forms and quantities; they are for certain things, and for a certain number of things.
1. τροφὴ καὶ τροφῆς εἶδος μία καὶ πολλαί· μία μὲν ᾗ γένος ἕν, εἶδος δὲ ὑγρότητι καὶ ξηρότητι· καὶ ἐν τούτοις ἰδέαι καὶ πόσον ἐστὶ καὶ ἔς τινα καὶ ἐς τοσαῦτα.
2. It increases, strengthens, clothes with flesh, makes like, makes unlike, what is in the several parts, according to the nature of each part and its original power.
2. αὔξει δὲ καὶ ῥώννυσι καὶ σαρκοῖ καὶ ὁμοιοῖ καὶ ἀνομοιοῖ τὰ ἐν ἑκάστοις κατὰ φύσιν τὴν ἑκάστου καὶ τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆς δύναμιν.
3. It makes into the likeness of a power, when the nutriment that comes in has the mastery, and when that is mastered which was there to begin with.
3. ὁμοιοῖ δὲ ἐς δύναμιν, ὅταν κρατήσῃ ἡ ἐπεισιοῦσα, καὶ ὅταν ἐπικρατῆται ἡ προῦ πάρχουσα.
4. It also loses its qualities; sometimes the earlier nutriment, when in time it has been liberated or added, sometimes the later, when in time it has been liberated or added.
4. γίγνεται δὲ καὶ ἐξίτηλος, ὁτὲ μὲν ἡ προτέρη ἐν χρόνῳ ἀπολυθεῖσα ἢ ἐπιπροστεθεῖσα, ὁτὲ δὲ ἡ ὑστέρη ἐν χρόνῳ ἀπολυθεῖσα ἢ ἐπιπροστεθεῖσα.
5. Both are weakened in time and after a time by the nutriment from without which has continuously entered in, and for a long time firmly has interwoven itself with all the limbs.
5. ἀμαυροῖ δὲ ἑκατέρας ἐν χρόνῳ καὶ μετὰ χρόνον ἡ ἔξωθεν συνεχὴς ἐπεισκριθεῖσα καὶ ἐπὶ πολλὸν χρόνον στερεμνίως πᾶσι τοῖς μέλεσι διαπλεκεῖσα.
6. And it sends forth shoots of its own proper form. It changes the old form and descends; it nourishes as it is digested. Sometimes it alters the earlier form, and completely obscures the former ones.
6. καὶ τὴν μὲν ἰδίην ἰδέην ἐξέβλαστησε· ⟨μεταβάλλει τε τὴν ἀρχαίην καὶ καταφέρεται· τρέφει δὲ πεττομένη·⟩ τὴν δὲ προτέρην ⟨ἰδέην ἐξαλλάσσει⟩ ἔστιν ὅτε καὶ τὰς προτέρας ἐξη μαύρωσεν.
7. Power of nutriment reaches to bone and to all the parts of bone, to sinew, to vein, to artery, to muscle, to membrane, to flesh, fat, blood, phlegm, marrow, brain, spinal marrow, the intestines and all their parts; it reaches also to heat, breath, and moisture.
7. δύναμις δὲ τροφῆς ἀφικνεῖται καὶ ἐς ὀστέον καὶ πάντα τὰ μέρεα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐς νεῦρον καὶ ἐς φλέβα καὶ ἐς ἀρτηρίην καὶ ἐς μῦν καὶ ἐς ὑμένα καὶ σάρκα καὶ πιμελὴν καὶ αἷμα καὶ φλέγμα καὶ μυελὸν καὶ ἐγκέφαλον καὶ νωτιαῖον καὶ τὰ ἐντοσθίδια καὶ πάντα τὰ μέρεα αὐτῶν, καὶ δὴ καὶ ἐς θερμασίην καὶ πνεῦμα καὶ ὑγρασίην.
8. Nutriment is that which is nourishing; nutriment is that which is fit to nourish; nutriment is that which is about to nourish.
8. τροφὴ δὲ τὸ τρέφον, τροφὴ δὲ τὸ οἷον, τροφὴ δὲ τὸ μέλλον.
9. The beginning of all things is one and the end of all things is one, and the end and beginning are the same.
9. ἀρχὴ δὲ πάντων μία καὶ τελευτὴ πάντων μία, καὶ ἡ αὐτὴ τελευτὴ καὶ ἀρχή.
10. And all the particular details in nourishment are managed well or ill; well if as aforesaid, ill if ordered in the opposite way to these.
10. καὶ ὅσα κατὰ μέρος ἐν τροφῇ καλῶς καὶ κακῶς διοικεῖται, καλῶς μὲν ὅσα προείρηται, κακῶς δὲ ὅσα τούτοις τὴν ἐναντίην ἔχει τάξιν.
11. Juices varied in colours and in powers, to harm or to help, or neither to harm nor to help, varied in amount, excess or defect, in combination of some but not of others.
11. χυλοὶ ποικίλοι καὶ χρώμασι καὶ δυνάμεσι καὶ ἐς βλαβὴν καὶ ἐς ὠφελίην, καὶ οὔτε βλάπτειν οὔτε ὠφελεῖν, καὶ πλήθει καὶ ὑπερβολῇ καὶ ἐλλείψει καὶ διαπλοκῇ ὧν μέν, ὧν δὲ οὔ.
12. And to the warming of all it harms or helps, to the cooling it harms or helps, to the power it harms or helps.
12. καὶ πάντων ἐς θερμασίην βλάπτει καὶ ὠφελεῖ, ἐς ψύξιν βλάπτει καὶ ὠφελεῖ, ἐς δύναμιν βλάπτει καὶ ὠφελεῖ.
13. Of power varied natures.
13. δυνάμιος δὲ ποικίλαι φύσιες.
14. Humours corrupting whole, part, from without, from within, spontaneous, not spontaneous; spontaneous for us, not spontaneous for the cause. Of the cause, part is clear, part is obscure, part is within our power and part is not.
14. χυμοὶ φθείροντες καὶ ὅλον καὶ μέρος καὶ ἔξωθεν καὶ ἔνδοθεν, αὐτόματοι οὐκ αὐτόματοι, ἡμῖν μὲν αὐτόματοι αἰτίῃ δὲ οὐκ αὐτόματοι. αἰτίης δὲ τὰ μὲν δῆλα τὰ δὲ ἄδηλα, καὶ τὰ μὲν δυνατὰ τὰ δὲ ἀδύνατα.
15. Nature is sufficient in all for all.
15. φύσις ἐξαρκεῖ πάντα πᾶσι.
16. To deal with nature from without: plaster, anointing, salve, uncovering of whole or part, covering of whole or part, warming or cooling similarly, astriction, ulceration, biting, grease; from within: some of the aforesaid, and in addition an obscure cause in part or whole, in some cases but not in all.
16. ἐς δὲ ταύτην, ἔξωθεν μὲν κατάπλασμα, κατάχρισμα, ἄλειμμα, γυμνότης ὅλου καὶ μέρεος καὶ σκέπη ὅλου καὶ μέρεος, θερμασίη καὶ ψύξις κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν λόγον, καὶ στύψις καὶ ἕλκωσις καὶ δηγμὸς καὶ λίπασμα· ἔνδοθεν δὲ τινά τε τῶν εἰρημένων, καὶ ἐπὶ τούτοις αἰτίη ἄδηλος καὶ μέρει καὶ ὅλῳ, τινί τε καὶ οὔ τινι.
17. Secretions in accordance with nature, by the bowels, urine, sweat, sputum, mucus, womb, through hemorrhoid, wart, leprosy, tumour, carcinoma, from nostrils, lungs, bowels, seat, penis, in accordance with nature or contrary to nature. The peculiar differences in these things depend on differences in the individual, on times and on methods. All these things are one nature and not one. All these things are many natures and one nature.
17. Ἀποκρίσιες κατὰ φύσιν, κοιλίης, οὔρων, ἱδρῶτος, πτυάλου, μύξης, ὑστέρης, καθʼ αἱμορροϊδα, θύμον, λέπρην, φῦμα, καρκίνωμα, ἐκ ῥινῶν, ἐκ πλεύμονος, ἐκ κοιλίης, ἐξ ἕδρης, ἐκ καυλοῦ, κατὰ φύσιν καὶ παρὰ φύσιν. αἱ διακρίσιες τούτων ἄλλοισι πρὸς ἄλλον λόγον ἄλλοτε καὶ ἀλλοίως. μία φύσις ἐστὶ ταῦτα πάντα καὶ οὐ μία· πολλαὶ φύσιές εἰσι ταῦτα πάντα καὶ μία.
18. Purging upward or downward, neither upward nor downward.
18. φαρμακείη ἄνω καὶ κάτω, οὔτε ἄνω οὔτε κάτω.
19. In nutriment purging excellent, in nutriment purging bad; bad or excellent according to circumstances.
19. ἐν τροφῇ φαρμακείη ἄριστον, ἐν τροφῇ φαρμακείη φλαῦρον, φλαῦρον καὶ ἄριστον πρός τι.
20. Ulceration, burn-scab, blood, pus, lymph, leprosy, scurf, dandruff, scurvy, white leprosy, freckles, sometimes harm and sometimes help, and sometimes neither harm nor help.
20. ἕλκος, ἐσχάρη, αἷμα, πύον, ἰχώρ, λέπρη, πίτυρον, ἄχωρ, λειχήν, ἀλφός, ἔφηλις, ὁτὲ μὲν βλάπτει, ὁτὲ δὲ ὠφελεῖ, ὁτὲ δὲ οὔτε βλάπτει οὔτε ὠφελεῖ.
21. Nutriment not nutriment if it have not its power. Not nutriment nutriment if it can nourish. Nutriment in name, not in deed; nutriment in deed, not in name.
21. τροφὴ οὐ τροφή, ἢν μὴ δύνηται· μὴ τροφὴ τροφή, ἢν οἷόν τε ᾖ τρέφεσθαι. οὔνομα τροφή, ἔργον δὲ οὐχί· ἔργον τροφή, οὔνομα δὲ οὐχί.
22. It travels from within to hair, nails, and to the extreme surface; from without nutriment travels from the extreme surface to the innermost parts.
22. ἐς τρίχας καὶ ἐς ὄνυχας καὶ ἐς τὴν ἐσχάτην ἐπιφανείην ἔνδοθεν ἀφικνεῖται· ἔξωθεν τροφὴ ἐκ τῆς ἐσχάτης ἐπιφανείης ἐνδοτάτω ἀφικνεῖται.
23. Conflux one, conspiration one, all things in sympathy; all the parts as forming a whole, and severally the parts in each part, with reference to the work.
23. Σύρροια μία, σύμπνοια μία, συμπαθέα πάντα. κατὰ μὲν οὐλομελίην πάντα, κατὰ μέρος δὲ τὰ ἐν ἑκάστῳ μέρει μέρεα πρὸς τὸ ἔργον.
24. The great beginning travels to the extreme part; from the extreme part there is travelling to the great beginning. One nature to be and not to be.
24. ἀρχὴ μεγάλη ἐς ἔσχατον μέρος ἀφικνεῖται· ἐξ ἐσχάτου μέρεος ἐς ἀρχὴν μεγάλην ἀφικνεῖται· μία φύσις εἶναι καὶ μὴ εἶναι.
25. Differences of diseases depend on nutriment, on breath, on heat, on blood, on phlegm, on bile, on humours, on flesh, on fat, on vein, on artery, on sinew, muscle, membrane, bone, brain, spinal marrow, mouth, tongue, oesophagus, stomach, bowels, midriff, peritoneum, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder, womb, skin. All these things both as a whole and severally. Their greatness great and not great.
25. νούσων δὲ διαφοραὶ ἐν τροφῇ, ἐν πνεύματι, ἐν θερμασίῃ, ἐν αἵματι, ἐν φλέγματι, ἐν χολῇ, ἐν χυμοῖσιν, ἐν σαρκί, ἐν πιμελῇ, ἐν φλεβί, ἐν ἀρτηρίῃ, ἐν νεύρῳ, μυί, ὑμένι, ὀστέῳ, ἐγκεφάλῳ, νωτιαίῳ μυελῷ, στόματι, γλώσσῃ, στομάχῳ, κοιλίῃ, ἐντέροισι, φρεσί, περιτοναίῳ, ἥπατι, σπληνί, νεφροῖς, κύστει, μήτρῃ, δέρματι. ταῦτα πάντα καὶ καθʼ ἓν καὶ κατὰ μέρος. μέγεθος αὐτῶν μέγα καὶ οὐ μέγα.
26. Signs: tickling, ache, rupture, mind, sweat, sediment in urine, rest, tossing, condition of the eyes, imaginations, jaundice, hiccoughs, epilepsy, blood entire, sleep, from both these and all other things in accordance with nature, and everything else of a similar nature that tends to harm or help. Pains of the whole or of a part, indications of severity: of the one, greater severity, of the other, less, and from both come signs of greater severity, and from both come signs of less.
26. τεκμήρια, γαργαλισμός, ὀδύνη, ῥῆξις, γνώμη, ἱδρώς, οὔρων ὑπόστασις, ἡσυχίη, ῥιπτασμός, ὄψιος στάσιες, φαντασίαι, ἴκτερος, λυγμοί, ἐπιληψίη, αἷμα ὁλοσχερές, ὕπνος, καὶ ἐκ τούτων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν κατὰ φύσιν, καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα τοιουτότροπα ἐς βλάβην καὶ ἐς ὠφελίην ὁρμᾶ· πόνοι ὅλου καὶ μέρεος μεγέθους σημεῖα, τοῦ μὲν ἐς τὸ μᾶλλον, τοῦ δὲ ἐς τὸ ἧσσον, καὶ ἀπʼ ἀμφοτέρων ἐς τὸ μᾶλλον καὶ ἀπʼ ἀμφοτέρων ἐς τὸ ἧσσον.
27. Sweet, not sweet; sweet in power, like water, sweet to the taste, like honey. Signs of either are sores, eyes and tastings, which can also distinguish degrees. Sweet to sight, in colours and in combinations generally, sweet to a greater or less degree.
27. γλυκύ οὐ γλυκύ, γλυκὺ ἐς δύναμιν οἷον ὕδωρ, γλυκὺ ἐς γεῦσιν οἷον μέλι· σημεῖα ἑκατέρων, ἕλκεα, ὀφθαλμοὶ καὶ γεύσιες, καὶ ἐν τούτοις τὸ μᾶλλον καὶ τὸ ἧσσον· γλυκὺ ἐς τὴν ὄψιν καὶ ἐν χρώμασι καὶ ἐν ἄλλῃσι μίξεσι, γλυκὺ μᾶλλον καὶ ἧττον.
28. Porousness of a body for transpiration healthy for those from whom more is taken; denseness of body for transpiration unhealthy for those from whom less is taken. Those who transpire freely are weaker, healthier, and recover easily; those who transpire hardly are stronger before they are sick, but on falling sick they make difficult recovery. These for both whole and part.
28. Ἀραιότης σώματος ἐς διαπνοίην οἷς πλέον ἀφαιρεῖται ὑγιεινόν· πυκνότης σώματος ἐς διαπνοίην οἷς ἔλασσον ἀφαιρεῖται νοσηλόν· οἱ διαπνεόμενοι καλῶς ἀσθενέστεροι καὶ ὑγιεινότεροι καὶ εὐανάσφαλτοι, οἱ διαπνεόμενοι κακῶς πρὶν ἢ νοσεῖν ἰσχυρότεροι, νοσήσαντες δὲ δυσανά σφαλτοι· ταῦτα δὲ καὶ ὅλῳ καὶ μέρει.
29. The lungs draw a nourishment which is the opposite of that of the body, all other parts draw the same.
29. πλεύμων ἐναντίην σώματος τροφὴν ἕλκει, τὰ δʼ ἄλλα πάντα τὴν αὐτήν.
30. Beginning of nutriment of breath, nostrils, mouth, throat, lungs, and the transpiratory system generally. Beginning of nutriment, both wet and dry, mouth, oesophagus, stomach. The more ancient nutriment, through the epigastrium, where the navel is.
30. ἀρχὴ τροφῆς πνεύματος, ῥῖνες, στόμα, βρόγχος, πλεύμων, καὶ ἡ ἄλλη διαπνοίη· ἀρχὴ τροφῆς καὶ ὑγρῆς καὶ ξηρῆς, στόμα, στόμαχος, κοιλίη. ἡ δὲ ἀρχαιοτέρη τροφὴ διὰ τοῦ ἐπι γαστρίου, ᾗ ὁ ὀμφαλός.
31. Root of veins, liver; root of arteries, heart. Out of these travel to all parts blood and breath, and heat passes through them.
31. ῥίζωσις φλεβῶν ἧπαρ, ῥίζωσις ἀρτηριῶν καρδίη· ἐκ τούτων ἀποπλανᾶται ἐς πάντα αἷμα καὶ πνεῦμα, καὶ θερμασίη διὰ τούτων φοιτᾷ.
32. Power one, and not one, by which all these things and those of a different sort are managed; one for the life of whole and part, not one for the sensation of whole and part.
32. δύναμις μία καὶ οὐ μία, ᾗ πάντα ταῦτα καὶ τὰ ἑτεροῖα διοικεῖται, ἡ μὲν ἐς ζωὴν ὅλου καὶ μέρεος, ἡ δὲ ἐς αἴσθησιν ὅλου καὶ μέρεος.
33. Milk nutriment, for those to whom milk is a natural nutriment, but for others it is not. For some wine is nutriment, for others not. So with meats and the other many forms of nutriment, the differences being due to place and habit.
33. γάλα τροφή, οἷς γάλα τροφὴ κατὰ φύσιν, ἄλλοισι δὲ οὐχί, ἄλλοισι δὲ οἶνος τροφή, καὶ ἄλλοισιν οὐχί, καὶ σάρκες καὶ ἄλλαι ἰδέαι τροφῆς πολλαί, καὶ κατὰ χώρην καὶ κατʼ ἐθισμόν.
34. Nourishment is sometimes into growth and being, sometimes into being only, as is the case with old men; sometimes in addition it is into strength. The condition of the athlete is not natural. A healthy state is superior in all.
34. τρέφεται δὲ τὰ μὲν ἐς αὔξησιν καὶ ἐς τὸ εἶναι, τὰ δὲ ἐς τὸ εἶναι μοῦνον, οἷον γέροντες, τὰ δὲ πρὸς τούτῳ καὶ ἐς ῥώμην. διάθεσις ἀθλητικὴ οὐ φύσει· ἕξις ὑγιεινὴ κρείσσων ἐν πᾶσιν.
35. It is a great thing successfully to adapt quantity to power.
35. μέγα τὸ πόσον εὐστόχως ἐς δύναμιν συναρμοσθέν.
36. Milk and blood are what is left over from nutriment.
36. γάλα καὶ αἷμα τροφῆς πλεονασμός.
37. Periods generally harmonise for the embryo and its nutriment; and again nutriment tends upwards to milk and the nourishment of the baby.
37. περίοδοι ἐς πολλὰ σύμφωνοι, ἐς ἔμβρυον ἐς τὴν τούτου τροφήν. αὖτις δʼ ἄνω ῥέπει ἐς γάλα καὶ ἐς τροφὴν βρέφεος.
38. Inanimates get life, animates get life, the parts of animates get life.
38. ζωοῦται τὰ μὴ ζῷα, ζωοῦται τὰ ζῷα, ζωοῦται τὰ μέρεα τῶν ζῴων.
39. The natures of all are untaught.
39. φύσιες πάντων ἀδίδακτοι.
40. Blood of another is useful, one’s own blood is useful; blood of another is harmful, one’s own blood is harmful; one’s own humours are harmful, humours of another are harmful; humours of another are beneficial, one’s own humours are beneficial; the harmonious is unharmonious, the unharmonious is harmonious; another’s milk is good, one’s own milk is bad; another’s milk is harmful, one’s own milk is useful.
40. αἷμα ἀλλότριον ὠφέλιμον, αἷμα ἴδιον ὠφέλιμον, αἷμα ἀλλότριον βλαβερόν, αἷμα ἴδιον βλαβερόν, χυμοὶ ἴδιοι βλαβεροί, χυμοὶ ἀλλότριοι βλαβεροί, χυμοὶ ἀλλότριοι συμφέροντες, χυμοὶ ἴδιοι συμφέροντες, τὸ σύμφωνον διάφωνον, τὸ διάφωνον σύμφωνον, γάλα ἀλλότριον ἀστεῖον, γάλα ἴδιον φλαῦρον, γάλα ἀλλότριον βλαβερόν, γάλα ἴδιον ὠφέλιμον.
41. Food for the young partly digested, for the old completely changed, for adults unchanged.
41. σιτίον νέοις ἀκροσαπές, γέρουσιν ἐς τέλος μεταβεβλημένον, ἀκμάζουσιν ἀμετάβλητον.
42. For formation, thirty-five days; for movement, seventy days; for completion, two hundred and ten days. Others, for form, forty-five days; for motion, ninety days; for delivery, two hundred and seventy days. Others, fifty for form; for the first leap, one hundred; for completion, three hundred days. For distinction of limbs, forty; for shifting, eighty; for detachment, two hundred and forty days. It is not and is. There are found therein both more and less, in respect of both the whole and the parts, but the more is not much more, and the less not much less.
42. ἐς τύπωσιν λεʼ ἠέλιοι, ἐς κίνησιν οʼ, ἐς τελειότητα σιʼ· ἄλλοι, ἐς ἰδέην μεʼ, ἐς κίνησιν σʼ, ἐς ἔξοδον σοʼ· ἄλλοι, νʼ ἐς ἰδέην, ἐς πρῶτον ἅλμα ρʼ, ἐς τελειότητα τʼ. ἐς διάκρισιν μʼ, ἐς μετάβασιν ρʼ, ἐς ἔκπτωσιν σμʼ. οὐκ ἔστι καὶ ἔστι. γίνεται δὲ ἐν τούτοις καὶ πλείω καὶ ἐλάσσω, καὶ καθʼ ὅλον καὶ κατὰ μέρος, οὐ πολλὸν δὲ καὶ πλείω πλείω καὶ ἐλάσσω ἐλάσσω.
43. Nutriment of bones after breaking; for the nostril, twice five; for jaw, collar-bone and ribs, twice this; for the fore-arm, thrice; for the leg and upper-arm, four times; for the thigh, five times; there may be, however, in these a little more or less.
43. ὀστέων τροφὴ ἐκ κατήξιος, ῥινὶ δὶς πέντε, γνάθῳ καὶ κληῖδι καὶ πλευρῇσι διπλάσιαι, πήχει τριπλάσιαι, κνήμῃ καὶ βραχίονι τετραπλάσιαι, μηρῷ πενταπλάσιαι, καὶ εἴ τι ἐν τούτοις δύναται πλέον ἢ ἔλασσον.
44. Blood is liquid and blood is solid. Liquid blood is good, liquid blood is bad. Solid blood is good, solid blood is bad. All things are good or bad relatively.
44. αἷμα ὑγρὸν καὶ αἷμα στερεόν. αἷμα ὑγρὸν ἀστεῖον, αἷμα ὑγρὸν φλαῦρον· αἷμα στερεὸν ἀστεῖον, αἷμα στερεὸν φλαυρόν· πρός τι πάντα φλαῦρα καὶ πάντα ἀστεῖα.
45. The way up, down.
45. ὁδὸς ἄνω κάτω.
46. Power of nutriment superior to mass; mass of nutriment superior to power; both in moist things and in dry.
46. δύναμις τροφῆς κρέσσων ἢ ὄγκος, ὄγκος τροφῆς κρέσσων ἢ δύναμις, καὶ ἐν ὑγροῖς καὶ ἐν ξηροῖς.
47. It takes away and adds not the same thing; it takes away from one, and adds to another, the same thing.
47. ἀφαιρεῖ καὶ προστίθησιν οὐ τωὐτό, τῷ μὲν ἀφαιρεῖ, τῷ δὲ προστίθησι τωὐτό.
48. Pulsations of veins and breathing of the lungs according to age, harmonious and unharmonious, signs of disease and of health, and of health more than of disease, and of disease more than of health. For breath too is nutriment.
48. φλεβῶν διασφύξιες καὶ ἀναπνοὴ πλεύμονος καθʼ ἡλικίην, καὶ σύμφωνα καὶ διάφωνα, καὶ νούσου καὶ ὑγιείης σημεῖα, καὶ ὑγιείης μᾶλλον ἢ νούσου καὶ νούσου μᾶλλον ἢ ὑγιείης· τροφὴ γὰρ καὶ πνεῦμα.
49. Liquid nutriment more easily changed than solid; solid nutriment more easily changed than liquid. That which is hardly altered is hard of digestion, and that which is easily added is easy of digestion.
49. ὑγρὴ τροφὴ εὐμετάβλητος μᾶλλον ἢ ξηρή· ξηρὴ τροφὴ εὐμετάβλητος μᾶλλον ἢ ὑγρή· ἡ δυσαλλοίωτος δυσεξανάλωτος, ἡ εὐπρόσθετος εὐεξανάλωτος.
50. And for such as need a quick reinforcement, a liquid remedy is best for recovery of power; for such as need a quicker, a remedy through smell; for those who need a slower reinforcement, solid nutriment.
50. καὶ ὁκόσοι ταχείης προσθέσιος δέονται, ὑγρὸν ἴημα ἐς ἀνάληψιν δυνάμιος κράτιστον· ὁκόσοι δὲ ἔτι ταχυτέρης, διʼ ὀσφρήσιος. ὁκόσοι δὲ βραδυτέρης προσθέσιος δέονται, στερεὴ τροφή.
51. Muscles being more solid waste less easily than other parts, save bone and sinew. Parts that have been exercised resist change, being according to their kind stronger than they otherwise would have been, and therefore less liable to waste.
51. Μῦες στερεώτεροι δυσέκτηκτοι ⟨μᾶλλον⟩ τῶν ἄλλων, παρὲξ ὀστέου καὶ νεύρου· δυσμετάβλητα τὰ γεγυμνασμένα, κατὰ γένος αὐτὰ ἑωυτῶν ἰσχυρότερα ἐόντα, διὰ τοῦτο αὐτὰ ἑωυτῶν δυστηκτότερα.
52. Pus comes from flesh; pus-like lymph comes from blood and moisture generally. Pus is nutriment for a sore; lymph is nutriment for vein and artery.
52. πύον τὸ ἐκ σαρκός· πυῶδες τὸ ἐξ αἵματος καὶ ἐξ ἄλλης ὑγρασίης· πύον τροφὴ ἕλκεος· πυῶδες τροφὴ φλεβός, ἀρτηρίης.
53. Marrow nutriment of bone, and through this a callus forms.
53. μυελὸς τροφὴ ὀστέου, διὰ τοῦτο ἐπι πωροῦται.
54. Power gives to all things increase, nourishment and birth.
54. δύναμις πάντα αὔξει καὶ τρέφει καὶ βλαστάνει.
55. Moisture the vehicle of nutriment.
55. Ὑγρασίη τροφῆς ὄχημα.