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  1 1|        that breadin turning into blood becomes changed as regards
  2 1|          bread obviously becomes blood; (at anyrate, if a man takes
  3 1|    prolonged period, he willhave blood enclosed in his veins all
  4 1|          faculties - for example,blood, flesh, or nerve. And activity
  5 1|        Thus, whenfood turns into blood, the motion of the food
  6 1|  engendered itfrom the menstrual blood of the mother. Thus the
  7 1|       since they neither contain blood, nor do their coats in anyway
  8 1|      happen. ~ ~How, then, could blood ever turn into bone, without
  9 1|         how could bread turninto blood without having gradually
 10 1|        Thus it is quite easy for blood to becomeflesh; for, if
 11 1|         flesh; but in order that blood may turn into bone, muchtime
 12 1|        and transformation of the blood.Further, it is quite clear
 13 1|    alteration, in order tobecome blood. ~ ~This, then, is one reason
 14 1|   altered and constituted useful blood; but, not withstanding,
 15 1|        taken up into the veinsas blood - nor is this itself entirely
 16 1|       itself entirely utilisable blood. Nature, therefore,had need
 17 1|      urine spurts out ofit, like blood in the operation of vene-section;
 18 1|        actually turns the useful blood into bile, and dissolvesthe
 19 1|         with it the whole of the blood which they contain. And
 20 1|   portion, then the whole of the blood containedin the vena cava
 21 1|         kidneys, thewhole of the blood must come to them, and not
 22 1|   insertedinto them. Now, if the blood were destined to be purified
 23 1|          disprovedin the case of blood in the vena cava; it is
 24 1|          considerablequantity of blood. ~ ~In relation to the lower
 25 1|         For, if the whole of the blood were carried to thekidneys,
 26 1|       the veinswill obstruct the blood flowing in from behind;
 27 1|     secondquantity of unpurified blood to the kidneys - occupied
 28 1|       occupied as they areby the blood which had preceded, there
 29 1|      will draw back the purified blood from the kidneys?And what
 30 1|        next place, will bid this blood retire to thelower part
 31 1|    abovethe kidneys receive pure blood, whilst the watery residue,
 32 1|     serviceable, and is sent, as blood, toall the parts below the
 33 1|       into the kidneys,while the blood falls downwards along the
 34 1|       from the vena cava, should blood flow into all the others,
 35 2|       bladder by one method, the blood into parts of the animal
 36 2|     mechanism to explain why the blood is conveyed in all directions,
 37 2|        is foolish in the case of blood, and impossible, nay, perfectly
 38 2|         not a fact that when the blood runs past the mouths [stomata]
 39 2|    secreted but carried with the blood all over the body." But,
 40 2|         and distributed with the blood?... ~ This, however, is
 41 2|     vessels and stomata, and the blood to the wider ones, for no
 42 2|        no other reason than that blood is thicker and bile thinner,
 43 2|         the case of the bile and blood. For, if it be that we are
 44 2|          on bile as thinner than blood because it runs more, then,
 45 2|     parts of the animal would be blood - that blood, namely, which
 46 2|     animal would be blood - that blood, namely, which flows to
 47 2|         the artificer. From this blood there arises no part of
 48 2|          is as red and moist [as blood is], for bone, artery, vein,
 49 2|     membrane, and marrow are not blood, though they arise from
 50 2|         with a great quantity of blood, it would perish, while
 51 2|          be entirely deprived of blood it would remain inoperative
 52 2|         afflux to it of a little blood - or, rather, one should
 53 2|       semen with a due amount of blood? What would Erasistratus
 54 2|         with Phidias, whilst the blood corresponds to the statuary'
 55 2|      will draw to itself as much blood as it needs. Here, however,
 56 2|         a faculty for attracting blood similar to that possessed
 57 2|    principle being the menstrual blood. Next, seeing that the active
 58 2|       itself a due proportion of blood? Now, this fluid would be
 59 2|           conduct the unpurified blood, and from which, in the
 60 2|      cava take over the purified blood. For it would not only have
 61 2|    namely, that the whole of the blood does not become purified.
 62 2|        veins and their contained blood. That is to say, when blood
 63 2|      blood. That is to say, when blood is running away through
 64 2|      they get the benefit of the blood which they contain. But
 65 2|         they do not also contain blood. One might obviously say
 66 2|       adventitious flow of other blood from the real vein lying
 67 2|        this is not occupied with blood, but with psychic pneuma,
 68 2|    investigations concerning the blood as well - whether it takes
 69 2|         the generation of useful blood. For it is not equally important
 70 2|         to be turned into useful blood. Why is Erasistratus not
 71 2|        veins both thick and thin blood; in some people it is redder,
 72 2| carelessness to suppose that the blood is prevented from going
 73 2|       think that the anadosis of blood through the veins results
 74 2|         subject of the origin of blood (which is in no way less
 75 2|     turns the digested food into blood cannot suffer any kind of
 76 2|         a man possibly say about blood who had no use for innate
 77 2|          not into bile, but into blood. Erasistratus, however,
 78 2|   declare that it along with the blood is generated in these organs.
 79 2|        warmest have abundance of blood, whilst those that are colder
 80 2|          are entirely lacking in blood, and consequently in winter
 81 2|    question of the colour of the blood has been dealt with not
 82 2|        veins by the innate heat, blood is produced when it is in
 83 2|        the case, we must suppose blood to be the outcome of proportionate,
 84 2|       into bile sooner than into blood. Thus we need a cold temperament
 85 2|         brought to the nature of blood. Therefore Hippocrates not
 86 2|        circumstances it produces blood. ~ But surely it is impossible
 87 2|       persons bile and in others blood, if it be not that the genesis
 88 2|       and why the veins generate blood. There is no use in recognizing
 89 2|        regards the veins and the blood, he omitted even to ask
 90 2|    moderately moist it generates blood; for this reason they also
 91 2|    reason they also say that the blood is a virtually warm and
 92 2|       the veins mingled with the blood? Yet Hippocrates says, "
 93 2|          those which cleanse the blood, but there are thousands
 94 2|       degree than is proper, the blood is unpurified, and the whole
 95 2|         with the result that the blood becomes thicker and darker. ~
 96 2|     follow:- ~ In the genesis of blood, everything in the nutriment
 97 2|         both thick and thin; the blood is purified both by the
 98 2|       all over the body. For the blood in many parts of the body
 99 2|        the use of parts. And the blood also needs, not least [...]~
100 3|  nutriment into the substance of blood, whereas that in the mouth
101 3|       How could it easily become blood if it were not previously
102 3|         any other food turn into blood if they had not previously
103 3|         periods an evacuation of blood by way of the intestines -
104 3|        most vaporous part of the blood which these contain, and
105 3|     third place that part of the blood which has been accurately
106 3|         the lightest part of the blood out of the veins. So also
107 3|          matter is drawn. Of the blood, then, which is taken into