Propositiones medicae

remaining intemperances. Inflammation is denoted by touch, heat, and pain of the left hypochondrium. Obstruction is likewise known by touch, just as the preceding diet shows the very abundance of the humor.

XVIII.

From the mixed affections and signs of both viscera, liver and spleen, μελάγχλωρος black-green jaundice is recognized.

XIX.

However, Stomacea mouth-rot or Pliny's Sceletyrbe a disease of the legs, which is commonly called Scorbutus Scurvy, has a very great kinship with the aforementioned affections.

XX.

For this also reveals itself with a livid color infecting the shins, and sprinkling them with leaden spots, and with some contraction of the nerves; whence the ability to walk is rendered somewhat more sluggish. A livid color also stains the gums and causes the teeth to loosen.

XXI.

It arises from the effusion of melancholic humor either to the gums or the shins, and it also follows an ill-affected spleen.

XXII.

Yet it differs from icteric affections by the very quality of the peccant melancholic humor, which in scurvy is not entirely free from putrefaction and contagion, and at the same time by the causes inducing putrefaction and contagion.

XXIII.

Wherefore we believe it to be a new disease, unknown in the age of Hippocrates, although many deny this; and we maintain it first appeared in Germany by the Rhine upon the arrival of the German Emperor.

XXIIII.

Neither did it pertain to the large spleens in Hippocrates or Celsus, nor to...