ON LIENTERY

THESES

according to the opinion of Galen

I.
A decorative initial letter M.Diseases and symptoms, by which the intestines are particularly exercised and afflicted, are generally either with constipation of the belly, or with a flux of the same, or frequent excretion.

II.
Of the former kind are Colic pain, Iliac Refers to severe abdominal pain or obstruction or Volvulus, etc. Of the latter are Cholera, Lientery, Celiac [disease], Diarrhea, Dysentery, Tenesmus, etc.

III.
Since, however, a symptom accompanies a disease as a shadow accompanies a body, once the diseases of these symptoms have been discovered, it is necessary to investigate the causes, which in general are either external or internal.

IV.
External causes depend on the regimen of the six non-natural things A classic medical concept including air, food and drink, motion and rest, sleep and waking, excretion and retention, and passions of the mind, which by reason of substance, quantity, quality, order, time, and custom, both by themselves and accidentally, can render the belly either fast or slow.

V.
Added to these are things happening from without, such as a blow, a wound, a rupture, a contusion, a fall, or the amputation of a member to which humor is accustomed to be carried.

VI.
Internal [causes] are investigated in the organs of the belly itself, or in the nearest [organs], which are said to be receiving, or in those adjacent, which are called propelling.

VII.
These in turn are either nearer, such as the mesentery,