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from the previous page: [The text discusses types of fevers and begins to categorize diseases according to how they affect the body's parts.]

likewise, for example: as podagra gout in the foot and chiragra gout in the hand. Or names are taken from the members to which they occur, such as chiragra and podagra. ¶ And finally, there is a universal disease that is associated with the two aforementioned: such as the separation of members and paralysis loss of muscle function.

¶ On diseases similar to the members.

Diseases therefore that have a similarity to the parts are eight: four simple and four compound. The simple ones are either from heat alone, or from moisture, or from coldness, or from dryness. From these, joined together among themselves, are four compound ones: cold and moist, cold and dry, hot and moist, hot and dry. ¶ Of these eight, there are two modes of disease for each. Either it occurs from a simple quality, or from the mixture of another humor. From a simple quality, there occurs a sickness that happens to the solid members, which in Greek is called ethica hectic/consumptive fever. A hot sickness that happens from a humor is a fever from putrefaction, as was said above. A cold sickness that happens without any humor is, for example, a chill from the excessive coldness of the air or snow. And there is a sickness that occurs with some cold humor, such as paralysis which happens in the whole body or in a part. ¶ The mode of a moistening disease is that which occurs naturally so that it does not need the admixture of another humor, such as a cold wound, or an empty one, or one most foul with the decay of the body, just as the bloated flesh of those with hydropicorum dropsy sluggish with empty filth. ¶ A moist disease, however, is one drawing other humors to itself, such as hydropisis dropsy/edema. ¶ A dry disease is one with a humor, such as a hard and dry cancer.

¶ On diseases in the official members.

Diseases occurring in the official meaning functional or instrumental, i.e., complex organs like the heart, liver, or stomach members are four. They are those that occur in the plasmatione formation/molding, that is, the form of the creature, and in the quantity of the members, and in the superfluity of the natural number, and in the position of the members.

¶ On diseases in formation.

¶ Diseases of the official members in the form of a human are made in five ways. ¶ The inconvenience of the members, such as an excessive length of the head. In the concavities, such as if the concavity of the hands and feet is filled with flesh. In the pores, such as their constriction or looseness. In roughness, such as the roughness of the throat or the channels of the lung. In smoothness, such as the smoothness of the womb or the stomach.

¶ On diseases in the quantity of members.

¶ Diseases in the quantity of members are made from an abundance of spermatis seed/semen/vital fluid when the members grow more than is proper. As we see happening in a large head and a thick tongue. Or from the ultimate and indecent smallness, such as a small head, stomach, and liver.

¶ On diseases in the number of members.

¶ Diseases in the number of members are made either from an increase or from a decrease. According to the increase, indeed, it is either from the course of nature, such as an extra finger. Or outside the course, such as worms, ascarides intestinal worms, warts, and acrocordines skin tags/fleshy excrescences, that is, additions of great flesh, or wider warts, or pores. According to the decrease, however, it is either universally, such as the amputation of all fingers, or particularly, such as one finger.

¶ On diseases in the position of members.

¶ Diseases occur in the position of members either on account of the motion of the member from its place, or from the disposition of a neighboring member, such as fingers and lips that conglutinate stick together or adhere and do not separate, or those which...