Decisiones praecipuorum aliquot aporēmatōn iatrophilosophikōn

humor cannot be expressed. Roasted foods, therefore, abound more than boiled ones in substantiating humor (to use the word of Gentilis in Avicenna, Book 1, fen 4, ch. 20, quest. 38), which makes roasted foods better prepared. Furthermore, we are taught by reasoning—both by arguments from the "why" original: "ἀπὸ τοῦ διότι" and from the "that" original: "ὅτι"—that the stomach digests food more slowly at night (for which reason we do not hesitate to assert that dinner ought to be lighter than lunch), although the school of Galen might protest.

Therefore, roasted foods are more suitable than boiled ones at dinner.

C O R O L L A R Y.

He who eats poorly, attempting to please his gullet and belly with various and sumptuous seasonings of mustard, pepper, ginger, cloves, and other aromatics, neglects all care for his health. For they hinder digestion, fill the head forcefully, generate burning of the urine, eye-itch ψωροφθαλμίαν psorophthalmia, intestinal spasm χορδαψὸν chordapsus, acute fevers, and similar ailments. They provide matter for kidney stones, and excessively excite the psoas muscles ψόας, in which the kidneys lie, through which the appetites are naturally moved. From this comes that small "comitial" disease epilepsy, which Galen mentions in his commentary on the 3rd book of Epidemics, text 3, in the story of Pythion. But that it is shameful for a medical man to be healed, not because of wounds or certain annual diseases that have befallen him, but because of idleness and diet, is a divine sentiment that the great Plato rightly left behind for us in the 3rd book of the Republic. Are such preparations of side-dishes and various sauces to be permitted to the Germans, who by custom want to excite thirst in taverns so that they are never not thirsty? And who drink twice so that they may drink [more]? Completely rejecting that law of Lycurgus which he prescribed to the Lacedaemonians (Xenophon, On the Lacedaemonian Republic): that each person should drink when he is thirsty, having removed unnecessary potions which "upset the bodies and upset the minds."

P A T H O L O G I C O N.
Whether worms, pus, and the sediment ὑπόστασις hypostasis of urine arise from putrefaction?

Opposed to simple and natural generation is putrefaction σῆψις sepsis/putrefaction, as