Inaugural Medical Dissertation on Blind and Open Hemorrhoids

Galen 6. epidem. comm. 5. text. 25. seems to accuse the fullness of BLOOD. Horstius [accuses] crude [blood], and indigested from the weakness of heat, Problem. medic. decad. 6. quest. 8. fol. m. 71. b. BILE reclining hither, warming the blood in these veins, is the oracle of Cos [Hippocrates], lib. on hemorrhoids from the beginning. Hier. Fabric. ab Aquapend. l. c. warns that it is to be understood in Hippocrates as that which is eructated from the gall-pore into the intestines. Fonseca, Tom. I. consil. 27. f. 178. and others have an example [of this].

III. The PITUITOUS Humor, which seeks an exit through these vessels, is called into doubt by many. Galen, 6. aph. 11. & 12. in comm. gave the occasion for doubting, because nature is accustomed to evacuate thick melancholic blood through these veins. Yet many try to prove the opposite; besides the fact that Hippocrates l. on hemorrhoids names not only Bile but also Pituita Phlegm/Mucus by express name (original: "The disease of hemorrhoids happens in this way, if bile or phlegm settles in the veins which are in the anus, it warms the blood which is in the little veins." The rims of the veins, according to the version of Foësius, are accustomed to shed blood in this way: Bile or pituita reclining to the veins which are in the anus, warms the blood which is in them), asserting that not only have very many pituitous diseases been healed by the benefit of Hemorrhoids, as witnessed by Adr. Spigelius, Fabric. Hildanus, Amatus Lusitanus, Hercules Saxonia, Vict. Trincavellus, J. B. Montanus, Joh. Craton, and I myself also observing the same recently; but also many have seen with their own eyes that not blood, but a whitish humor, by no means purulent, is squeezed out from these veins, as (against Petr. Paulum Simonetus) those among the moderns, Höchsteterus, Platerus, Fernelius, Sennertus, Plempius, Joh. Rhodius, affirm. And Fel. Platerus writes that it happens for the same reason as in the white fluor of the uterus, while whitening matter exits through the menstrual veins just as [it does] through the hemorrhoidal ones: indeed, just as mucus comes with blood to the kidneys, so also it comes to the hemorrhoidal veins so that it may be excluded, [as] has been decided by the Magnificent Dr. Vict. Schneider, most famous Professor at Wittenberg, Lib. III. on Catarrh. chap. 7. fol. m. 270.