Ioannis Vuieri medicarum observationum rararum Liber I

that is, the stomach of the throat, wasted by dire tortures and long-lasting pain. For cold and undigested foods taken too greedily seem to cause this kind of disease, which physicians call universal cachexia. Albertus Crantz in his Saxony and Euricius Cordus in his Botanologicon also mention this plague in passing.

CAUSES.

The proximate cause will be a thick, raw, cold humor contained in the blood vessels, whether it is melancholic or mixed with phlegm. Remote causes are the six non-natural things: corrupt air; a bad and putrid diet, frequent in the Northern regions, especially on their maritime ships, such as pork that is sometimes rank from the cooking, bacon stuffed with smoke and dried, sometimes rancid, at times from the beginning impure and imbued with signs of heavy infection, mostly eaten even raw; likewise other meats and fish that are first salted, then passed through and hardened by thick and much smoke, or preserved for a long time with much salt, similarly those that are of thick substance and dry; game and putrid meat, aquatic birds, and whatever has been seasoned with vinegar for a long time; cabbage, garlic; old biscuit bread, sometimes slightly moldy; legumes, thick and starchy beer; the use of vicious waters in the scarcity of sweet ones, from which savage diseases are generated, as Hippocrates and Pliny testify; likewise fasts, with food of little and bad juice; in addition, vigils, untimely labors, and immoderate affections of the mind,

Regarding air, waters, etc. Book 15, chapter 3.