Inaugural Medical Dissertation on Blind and Open Hemorrhoids

man, recite Solenander; see also Schenck in Remarkable Observations. Some accuse the Jews, as if they were infested with this flux more frequently than other nations. Others provide other causes for this: Gordonius, in the aforementioned Lily of Medicine, recounts three main ones: their idle life, perpetual fear, and divine punishment because they cried out when crucifying our Savior in Matthew 27:25, "His blood be upon us and our children." And that this was predicted by the Royal Psalmist in Psalm 78:66: "He struck them in the hinder parts of the back, and gave them to everlasting reproach." See Petræus, chapter 19 of the Theological theses. Was it that punishment with which the Philistines were struck by God in 1 Samuel 5:16 when they kept the captured Ark of the Covenant with them? Some Jews certainly feel this way, as Alphonsus Tostatus Abulensis recounts in his golden work on 1 Samuel, chapter 9, question 15, fol. 41a, and the Vulgate version does not seem to deny it. However, Petrus Martyr, commentary on 1 Samuel, chapter 5, fol. 36 rejects this very opinion after adding many others, which can be seen by those whom it concerns.

6. Finally, idiosynkrasia idiosyncrasy/individual constitution disposes not a few to this evil, which includes a peculiar strength of the viscera and larger vessels, combined with a weakness of these smaller terminal veins. See Solenander, section 4, Confessio 20. Hence, one person inclines more or less than another to such an affection.

VII. The so-called NON-NATURAL THINGS are referred by many to the procatarctic and External Causes. They are: 1. AIR, in this place, either torrid in summer or torpid with the cold of winter; for either can move the humors and irritate nature to expel them in its own way. Sennertus is the authority that malignity sometimes approaches, whence this disease was once epidemic in Rome.

The influxus astralis astral influence is not without its powers here. However, one must pay the greatest attention in the birth chart of the sick person to Saturn, Mars, Venus, and the signs of Scorpio and Virgo. Saturn is the ruler of melancholic humor and the diseases depending upon it, as attested by Origanus in Ephemerides, volume 1, page 5, on the effects, page 651. Mars, among other things, is accustomed to cause fistulas and effusions of blood in the more hidden parts, by the authority of Campanella, book 4.