Theses de sudore

XLVI.
Sleep extrudes sweat due to internal cooking heat, which is less dissipated, and because the body's exhalations are less blown away, especially from drink consumed more copiously.

XLVII.
We sweat from drink, either because the drink promptly slips into the veins, which is apparent in a soft-boiled egg taken with generous wine, or because heat increased by the drink expresses the sudorific matter, unless something else is an impediment.

XLVIII.
From food, however, especially hot and moist food, sweat emanates due to the heat acting upon the foods and the excited spirits.

XLIX.
Critical sweats occur in the state or the beginning of the decline of a disease, from the strength of nature resisting the disease, with manifest signs of digestion, and indeed on a critical day. Galen, Method of Medicine, book 9, chapter 5.

L.
Symptomatic sweats arise either from the weakness of nature or the malignancy of the matter, which forces nature to expel it untimely. Galen, Prorrheticon 33; Epidemics, book 3, commentary 3, sentences 41 & 61. We assume there is no one who has not seen such sweats in the epidemic plague of last year.

LI.
And so much for the causes, from which anyone will easily be able to attain the true and succinct προσφοράς method/application and rationale.

LII.
The conditions of good sweat, which indicates health, are that it be poured out on a critical day, after signs of digestion, in certain droplets, from the whole body, with the patient bearing it well, and with the thicker portion of the morbid matter already purged. Hippocrates, Prognostics 29; Aphorisms 4.36.

LIII.
Sweat that falls short of this is bad and indicates either difficult recovery,