Propositiones medicae

continues from previous page: nor to the large spleens in Hippocrates or Celsus, nor to the condition of the spleen or the volvulus original: "uoluulum", as we believe, can it be exactly referred; just as scurvy original: "sceletyrbe" is defined by the Author, and likewise black jaundice original: "icterus niger" with scurvy original: "scorbuto" does not agree in every respect with ἀλφῷ white leprosy/vitiligo.</>

XXV.

And indeed, it is placed in the class of scattered diseases, which the Greeks call σποραδικὰς sporadic, whose abundance arises from the fault peculiar to each individual and from a particular error committed in diet, consistent with reason and experience.

XXVI.

Nevertheless, it does not seem it should be excluded from the tribe of common or vernacular diseases, if one considers the places where it insinuates itself and holds onto with tenacity, as well as the inhabitants whom it attacks with continuous exacerbations. Indeed, it is attributed to the northern regions as if it were their peculiar property.

XXVII.

We fear, however, to classify it among the diseases of the whole substance, even if it shares in some contagion, lest we seem to have increased the family of diseases without valid reasons, as some more recent authors have done.

XXVIII.

The external or προκαρκτικαὶ precursory/procatarctic causes that generate internal ones are, for the most part: cold food and drink prone to putrefaction, salted and hardened fish, meats dried by smoke, and beer original: "zithi".

XXIX.

The causes already generated are either prepared by altering, or, once prepared, are stirred up by: suitable constitutions of the year, autumnal and winter seasons, vigils, labors, or even sloth, the suppression of accustomed evacuations, and sadder states of mind.

XXX.

Primarily, however, this task belongs to the air, if it comes from infected...