Sentence:  Methodism, in contrast to these sects, was based on a strict division of causes of symptoms into three conditions of the body: status laxus, in which the body or affected part is lax and wet, leading for example to a flux; status strictus, a constricted and dry state, of which amenorrhea was seen as a case in point; and <WSD>status mixtus</WSD>, a combination in which some parts of the body are constricted and others lax. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (historic) One of the three classes of disease recognized by the Ancient Greek (Methodic School) of medicine, in which some parts of the body are constricted and others relaxed.