De tabe et phthisi pronunciata

or, finally, from congestion in the lungs themselves due to pneumonia.

XV.
The external or prokatarktikai initial/antecedent causes are those which, by themselves and at the first encounter, produce ulceration in seemingly uninfected lungs: others stir up, sharpen, and exacerbate distillations.

XVI.
Of the former kind are the seeds of contagion, which infect the lungs with their putridity: the sea hare, ulcerating the lungs through some hidden property: a long duration in Plutonian caverns, taverns, and furnaces, in which metals are smelted and handled, Arsenic, mercury, asbestos unquenchable/lime, etc. Likewise, wounds inflicted on the chest, a strong blow, a severe contusion, a fall from a height, rupture of vessels, excessive agitation and stirring of the chest, and whatever others there may be.

XVII.
Distillations are moved by intense coldness or heat of the air, North or South winds, especially sudden changes from a Southern constitution to a Northern one, solar rays, strong frictions, hangovers from gluttony and drunkenness, a more humid diet, immoderate venery, an odor striking the lungs with a smoky or vaporous breath, any cold expressing humors from the constricted pores of the brain, any heat liquefying and dissolving humors, a bath loosening and melting, exercise disturbing the humors.

XVIII.
We will constitute the signs of Tabes, both of that which is given the name of Phthisis and of that which can be called Marasmus for the sake of sapheneias clarity, as diagnostica diagnostic, prognostica prognostic, and synodeuonta accompanying signs.

XIX.
The gnōrismata marks/signs of beginning Phthisis are a frequent cough, by which something dirty, bloody, or purulent is spat out: and a light fever that never rests, of the kind of putrid and quotidian fevers, but symptomatic, and afflicting more at night than during the day.

XX.
With the passing of time, as the ulcer creeps more and more, becoming dirty and chronic,