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Solution of continuity.

without a discharge of humors. Similarly, a solution of continuity is mixed with composite diseases according to one or another sect, as well as with simple ones, of which we made mention at the beginning. Furthermore, all particles that are at once inflamed and ulcerated necessarily suffer three, and sometimes four, diseases. I call an inflammation, for the present, a red and resistant
Inflammation, what it is.

tumor that causes pain. Because almost all tumors of this genus are mixed with one another, and it is rare to find any of them pure and sincere, it must necessarily be said that erysipelas, herpes, carbuncle, cancer, and other tumors of this kind
Carbuncle always invades with an ulcer.

are composite sicknesses. Of these, the carbuncle always invades with an ulcer, whereas the others sometimes infest without an ulcer. Erysipelas is generated from yellow bile; cancer from black bile; inflammation from blood; and edema from phlegm, which is a loose and yielding tumor. These humors,
Individual humors are attributed to tumors contrary to nature.

although they are humid in species, are not all humid in their potential. Indeed, black bile is dry and cold; yellow bile is hot and dry; phlegm is cold and humid; and blood is at once humid and hot. Therefore, since we have spoken of the composite diseases of similar parts,
The four humors, with what temperament each is endowed.

Composite diseases of dissimilar parts, which are to be called such.

let us now turn the discourse to those that afflict the instruments. The composite diseases of dissimilar parts are said to be those that have afflicted several and different parts at once; and by accident, those that have occupied only a single particle of the instruments. For if the tunic overlying the cornea is beset by
Lippitudo is an inflammation of the tunic overlying the cornea.

lippitudo ophthalmia/eye inflammation, since lippitudo is an inflammation of that part, and since every inflammation is a composite disease, there is no doubt for anyone that lippitudo will also be a composite disease: proper to the tunic itself, but by accident to the entire instrument. But if a pterygium, a suffusion cataract, and finally a narrowing of the angles press upon the eye itself at the same time, such a constitution will be called a composite sickness of the entire eye, since, clearly,