For the Irascible passions do follow the temper of the heart, but the concupiscible distractions the crasis of the liver.
I have sometimes observed the Crasis of the Blood so broke as to deposite a black Powder, like Soot, at the Bottom, the superior Part being either a livid Gore, or a dark green, and exceedingly soft Jelly.
Nevertheless, he was led to surmise a crasis of the two sexes in persons subject to sexual inversion.
But Burton makes no effort to account for the occurrence of this crasis of masculine and feminine temperaments in the Sotadic Zone at large, and for its sporadic appearance in other regions.
I suspect a crasis in the case, quasi an Umble, singular for what is plural now, from Lat.
The prevailing intermittent fevers, he says, gave place to a new epidemic depending upon a manifest crasis of the air.
