Propositiones medicae

XII.
Regarding symptoms, these two accidents occur: Diagnosis and Treatment.

XIII.
Diagnosis is either circumscribed in the present or extended to the future, accepting the name of prognostic.

XIIII.
The former species of diagnosis is conspicuous from the visible quality of the skin; the latter is confirmed by certain pronouncements of Hippocrates. For example: The Royal Disease is bad before the seventh day in fevers; the seventh, ninth, eleventh, and fourteenth days are judicial, unless the hypochondria are hard. And: In those laboring under the Royal Disease, it is bad if the liver becomes hard.

XV.
A more accurate diagnosis of combined diseases is to be sought from the peculiar consideration of each. ἐν πολλᾶς In many cases, where yellow jaundice arises from a hot intemperance of the liver, there is present heat of the body without heaviness of the hypochondria; where it arises from inflammation, fever and pain are present; where from obstruction, there is heaviness of the hypochondria, and the excrements do not appear tinted. White excrements without heaviness of the hypochondrium argue for a malady of the bladder. Heat of solid parts is argued by touch and itching.

XVI.
Abundance and infection of bile become known from ingested bilious foods, or poison, and other signs of dominant yellow bile.

XVII.
In black jaundice, it denotes whatever intemperance of the spleen, based on what is ingested or applied. For a hot intemperance is generated—and thus greatly increased—by hot things ingested and applied in the form of poultices, just as it is in the remaining