Inaugural Medical Dissertation on Blind and Open Hemorrhoids

2. The sexus sex, especially the male, is more prone to this flux, as attested by Marcello Donato, book 4 of the Miraculous Medical Histories, chapter 19. Hence, D. Senex counts it among the diseases of men, in Aphorisms 3, 30. Yet women are not entirely free of it. It happens to some, though more rarely, ordinarily a little after the menstrual flow; see Sennert. In others, when the months are suppressed, see Schenk; in others, with no observed order. Aristotle, 3 History of Animals, chapter 19 and Galen, 5 Aphorisms 33 agree. Indeed, it even occurs in widows whose menses have ceased. Hollerius observed this flux in two noble pregnant women; Forestus observed it in a woman during childbirth. Fernelius, Consilium 39 produces Leonora, Queen of France; Solenander, book 4, Confessio 20 mentions Anna, Countess of Waldek, and others mention others. Whether that Syrophoenician woman haimorrhoousa suffering from a hemorrhage, who is mentioned in Matthew 9:20, suffered from a flow of the menses, or hemorrhoids of the seat, or of the womb, it is of little interest for us to decide, although there is no lack of physicians who argue about the matter; see Horst, Observations, book 4, observation 53, fol. 244, 246. The reason why it can equally happen to women is explained by Gordonius in the Lily of Medicine, part 5, chapter 20, rubric 9, note 4.

3. The more suitable aetas age is adult, manly, and steady, between youth and old age, according to Galen, commentary on 3 Aphorisms 30 and 3 on humors, commentary 26, because melancholy—perhaps that natural ailment, especially the hypochondriac type—is as if proper to this age. Herfius blames the old, no doubt applying a certain latitude, since the number of years cannot be determined so exactly here, and the constitution of the body must be considered more. However, the flux is more familiar to adults than to boys and adolescents. Fonseca, Volume 1 has the history of a most illustrious youth of 30 years.

4. It is said to be more frequent in Southern regionibus regions than in Northern ones, the cause of which is provided by Aquapendens and others. It is said to be more frequent among Spaniards and Italians, especially those living in Venice and Padua, by the authority of Rodericus à Fonseca, Volume 1, Confessio 27, who assigns the cause to the too frequent use of aloes. In our Germany, this evil is also not infrequent.

5. That the same is sometimes hereditarium hereditary, so that it is common to entire families, histories attest: such an example regarding a certain most illustrious