Distemperance

(23) As these moments suggest, earth and human emerge in the plays, under the force of homological thinking, as creations twinned in anatomy (veins, wombs, blood), affections (sorrow, revenge), and physical states (thirst, hunger, and distemperance).

As the sixteenth-century physician Thomas Cogan put it in The Haven of Health, "by the temperance of [the non-naturals] the bodie being in health so continueth: by the distemperance of them sicknesse is induced and the bodie dissolved." (15)