Propositiones medicae

parts, or if it takes on transferred qualities from the sea, or if it propagates seeds of malignancy, released from marshy and damp places, into the prepared body and the obstructed spleen.

XXXI.

The principal diagnostic signs are: a livid color in the gums, a loose and fluid tumor in them, ulceration of the flesh, and loosening of the teeth, due to a putrid vapor which also introduces a foul breath and works toward the dissolution of these parts, which are more delicate and therefore highly prone to receive offenses of any kind.

XXXII.

Thus also, various and large spots appear on the shins according to the variety of the cause, such that a leaden and livid color, and sometimes even black, is represented.

XXXIII.

The prognosis is generally shared with other melancholic diseases: it is long-lasting, yields to medicines with difficulty, and sometimes ends in ἀτροφίαν atrophy, μελαγχολίαν melancholy, καχεξίαν cachexia/bad bodily condition, and dropsy original: "hydropem".

XXXIV.

In all these affections, the primary indication of the cure must be taken from the proximate causes themselves and the affections hostile to nature. The symptoms, if they do not vanish at the same time, also demand their own removal.

XXXV.

Therefore, in any species of jaundice, the cure is correctly distributed into dietetic original: "διαιτητικὴν" and pharmaceutical original: "φαρμακευτικὴν" practice. Dietetics primarily ensure that those things are avoided which, by accumulating melancholic or bilious humor, increase the aforementioned affections of the liver, gallbladder, spleen, and the whole body.

XXXVI.

Therefore, in the intemperance of the solid parts or of the liver, and inflammation...