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 1 2|   according to Erasistratus, it contains within itself a cavity of
 2 2|      and non-partite corpuscles contains within itself any formative,
 3 2| requires nourishment. Now, this contains within itself various parts,
 4 2|       whether the ingested food contains a minimum or a maximum of
 5 2|          that for example, beet contains a great deal of bile, and
 6 2|         little, while olive oil contains most, and wine least of
 7 2|      yellow bile is not that it contains a large quantity of this
 8 2|          of the fibres which it contains. And the use of these has
 9 3|     surplus substances which it contains. Thus, when such a condition
10 3|       consider what the stomach contains - phlegm, bile, pneuma, [
11 3|         of innate heat which it contains? Most assuredly the intestines
12 3|        the external coat, which contains transverse fibres, has been
13 3|   burdensome to the organ which contains it. This does not apply,