ARISTOTLE - The Works of Aristotle - On Sleep and Sleeplessness

ARISTOTLE -

The Works of Aristotle -

On Sleep and Sleeplessness

This explains why fits of drowsiness are especially apt to come on after meals; for the matter bot h the liquid and the corporeal which is borne upwards in a mass, is then of considerable quantity.
Artistotle I,  Short Physical Treatises, On Sleep and Sleeplessness, Chapter 3, Great Books Vol. 8,pg. 699

This explains why wines are not good for infants or for wet nurses (for it makes no difference, doubtless, whether the infants themselves or their nurses, drink them) but such person should drink them [if at all] diluted with water and in small quantity. For wine is spirituous, and of all wines the dark more so than any other.
Artistotle I,  Short Physical Treatises, On Sleep and Sleeplessness, Chapter 3, Great Books Vol. 8, pg. 700

VOCABULARY

Sanguineous

Relating to or involving blood or bloodshed. 2. Having the color of blood; blood-red.

relating to, or involving bloodshed : bloodthirsty. 3. : of, relating to, or containing blood.