Dialogue

 1 Intro| abstergent, like potash and soda, bitter. Purgatives of a weaker
 2 Intro|       bright, and sweet, and also bitter and smooth, in order that
 3 Intro|         from being corroded grows bitter, and as the bitter element
 4 Intro|          grows bitter, and as the bitter element refines away, becomes
 5 Intro|        When tinged with blood the bitter substance has a red colour,
 6 Intro|           of grass; or again, the bitter substance has an auburn
 7 Intro|         the secretion of dark and bitter bile, which, when mingled
 8 Intro|        the briny phlegm and other bitter and bilious humours wander
 9 Timae|          and soda, are all termed bitter. But the particles which
10 Timae|            and should also have a bitter quality, in order that the
11 Timae|           when, making use of the bitter part of the liver, to which
12 Timae|      invading, and diffusing this bitter element swiftly through
13 Timae|     having variegated colours and bitter properties, as well as acid
14 Timae|       everywhere corroded becomes bitter, and is injurious to every
15 Timae|  uncorrupted. Sometimes, when the bitter element is refined away,
16 Timae|           colour mingles with the bitter matter when new flesh is
17 Timae|        and briny phlegm and other bitter and bilious humours wander