Theses de lienteria

XXV.
To these are added a portion of eroding medicine contained in the wrinkles of the stomach; also worms, called oreōdēs mountain-like or possibly worm-like by Hippocrates; though for these, some understand the wildness and malignancy of the matter.

XXVI.
Diagnostic signs. Since every excessive intemperance dissolves operation, in that which is hectic the belly swells and is hardened by windy spirit, generated due to the extinction of heat.

XXVII.
But as the excretion of food and drink, if it answers to what was assumed, is from a bare intemperance, so to that which is with pituitous matter, a more copious, unequal, aqueous, and serous excretion succeeds, apart from the combination of blood or bile.

XXVIII.
Furthermore, Hippocrates says it is a sign that humor flows down from the head if the excrements are foamy. Which, however, since according to Galen it is not always necessary, he here joins with heaviness of the head, a multitude of phlegm, and somnolence.

XXIX.
But if it has taken occasion from external parts of the body, or from dropsy, the signs of this immediately present themselves to view.

XXX.
Pain of the affected place argues for ulceration and hunger, which the sick person perceives at the time of excretion around the navel, primarily from the biting of the passing food, yet apart from a significant collapse of strength.

XXXI.
Prognostic signs. These can be distinguished into salutary,