Theses de sudore

which either sweat or syrmatismos purgation/evacuation follows.

XIII.

Or finally, when the nature of the parts is exhausted in acute diseases, the innate heat is also exhausted. For this reason, Hippocrates (Aphorisms 4.37) asserts that cold sweats in an acute fever are lethal; not, however, because the humor itself is so cold that it could not be altered even by double the heat, according to the opinion of Galen and Vega. We say the same regarding cold empyic suppurative/pus-related sweats, as Hippocrates does in Coan Prenotions book 3, section 2; and regarding hectic and syncopal sweats, as Galen does in On the Causes of Symptoms book 3, chapter 2; as also regarding those who are in their death throes.

XIV.

Among the perisseumatic superfluous/excess-related causes, everything that can increase and excite internal heat, and that can move the spirits and humors, stirs up sweats.

XVI.

Thus, we attribute sweats arising from sadness and intense thought to the agitation of the spirits; the more vehement this is, the greater the force with which it pushes the serum out from the small openings of the veins.

XVII.

Furthermore, in this extrusion, not only is moving heat required, but also the laxity of the passages of the skin; which usually follows the condition of the external air. Therefore, Aristotle (Problems 8, section 2) writes that those who sweat more frequently also emit more generous sweats, because of their unobstructed passages.

XVIII.

The thinner humors themselves are poured into sweats; witness Galen in On the Preservation of Health book 1, chapters 12 and 14; and On the Differences of Fevers the final chapter; and the book On Black Bile, chapters 4 and 2.

XIX.

Meanwhile, however, we do not deny, with Heraclitus and Asclepiades,