CONCERNING JAUNDICE, OR THE ROYAL DISEASE, AND OTHER ICTERIC AFFECTIONS, AND SCURVY.

I.

The name Jaundice Icterus denotes the citrine yellowish color of the body, proceeding from an affection beyond nature. It is also commonly called Aurigo Golden Sickness, Arquatus Rainbow-colored, and the Royal Disease.

II.

It is also attributed, with qualification, to neighboring affections in which the citrine color has something of black or livid mixed in; hence it is called ἴκτερος μέλας black jaundice and μελάγχλωρος black-green.

III.

These are, however, symptomata symptoms in the category of affections of simple bodies, which are said to be visible.

IIII.

The proximate cause of these is simple bile, or melancholic humor, or both poured into the body, staining it, and free from putrid pollution.

V.

An effusion of such peccant humors results in various affections beyond nature in the liver, spleen, bladder, and the whole body. Thus, in the liver, a hotter intemperance and inflammation, or obstructions, precede it regarding simple or yellow jaundice. In the bladder, a weakness not attracting bile from the liver, or not expelling it once attracted. In solid parts, a hotter intemperance, converting blood into bile. Sometimes an infection from ingested poison, or a thickness and sluggishness obstructing the passage of the bladder, or the very abundance of bile, which is sometimes critically expelled through fevers, concurs with these.