THESIS I.

A decorative initial letter A Consumption Tabes wasting disease is the consumption and devouring of the native heat and moisture fixed in the solid parts, leading the body gradually and bit by bit to destruction.

II.

Hippocrates is accustomed to call those phthinōdeas consumptive/wasting whose bodies are weakened and waste away for any reason, whether because of atrophia lack of nourishment or cachexia general ill health/bad condition, not to mention those whose entire body withers due to the ulceration of the lungs.

III.

Bodies are weakened and gradually lapse into consumption in four ways. The first occurs when much blood is exhausted from the veins, as happens sometimes through starvation, scarcity of food, and other drying causes. The second occurs when that dewy moisture diffused through the spaces of the parts, by which the parts must be immediately nourished, is consumed; this we see occur through burning and synechtikas continuous/feverish fevers. The third occurs when fat is liquefied and consumed along with the flesh. The fourth occurs when the solid substance of similar parts is destroyed and wastes away.

IV.

The last mode is peculiar to the consumption that is complete, and it demolishes the substance of the solid parts. For first, it devours the moisture of the solid parts from which they are nourished. Hence, it soon liquefies the fleshy genus, which clings fixed to the fibers and the membranous parts of the solid bodies; and thus, finally, it ravages the solid parts themselves.

V.

This affection gains strength sometimes with the heart primarily affected, and sometimes when it is drawn into sympathy by parts obtaining familiarity and some interaction with the heart, either because of proximity or mutual connection; such are the liver, the diaphragm, the belly, the kidneys, and the lungs, as in Empyema pus in the chest cavity and Phthisis tuberculosis/pulmonary consumption properly so-called, and in the long-term inflammations of the principal and noble parts.

VI.

Wasting or Tabes, by which the primordial moisture happens to decrease and be consumed,