Airs
This direction of wind causes people to be constipated.
What are north-east and north-west winds?
This type of water is always harmful, as it never regains its previous quality.
What is snow and ice?
Stagnant water from marshes and lakes is productive of biliousness in this season.
What is summer?
This river has frequent thunderstorms, causing it to become what the author describes as "marshy, warm, wet, and thickly covered with vegetation."
What is the river Phasis?
These people, in custom and tradition, mold newly born babies heads with bandages to force it to increase in length.
Who are the Macrocephali?
These winds cause people to be full of phlegm.
What are south-west and south-east/warm winds?
This type of water, when purified, is said to be the best water for drinking.
What is rain water?
This star is blamed for Achilles' spur of madness while in Troy.
What is the Dog Star?
The people living in this type of city are likely to be more bilious than phlegmatic.
What is a northern city?
These women would cauterize their right breast to strengthen the right arm and shoulder.
Who are the Sauromatae?
When people live in a district sheltered from this wind, they are most unhealthy.
What is the east wind?
This liquid was purified from the human body by the sun.
What is sweat?
This work includes the first mention of "astronomy" in Greek literature.
What is Airs, Waters, Places?
This continent has a temperate, balanced climate which makes its inhabitants unwarlike.
What is Asia?
These people are big and stout, and their joints and veins are obscured by flesh. They have deep voices, and they reside near a rather stagnant river known as the Phasis.
Who are the Phasians?
Winds generally have one of these two qualities.
What is hot or cold?
This is the source of the best type of water.
What is (north-east/eastward facing) high-ground/hills?
In this season, phlegm is thought to be particularly abundant.
What is winter?
This place is dominated by heat.
What is Egypt?
These people cauterize the veins behind their ears to cure impotence.
Who are the Scythians?
Miscarriages are common in districts exposed to these winds.
What are south winds?
People who drink this water have large and firm spleens and hard, warm and thin bellies.
What is stagnant water (from marshes and lakes)?
This season is generally the best, most balanced season.
What is spring?
This place is dominated by cold.
What is Scythia?
Rich men who are impotent and live as women.
Who are the Anarieis of the Scythians?