THESES ON HECTIC FEVER.

I.
Hectic fever is so named because it is fixed and stable and is resolved with difficulty, just as a habit an established physical condition or temperament is, or because it has become entwined with the body’s habit.

II.
It is heat contrary to nature, inherent in the substance of the heart and poured out into the rest of the body.

III.
For just as the heat that begat us, the same heat kills us gently with the passing of age (whence we may seem to die in a way as we are born), so too does the heat of the Hectic [fever], but violently.

IIII.
Differences are taken from the diversity of magnitude and degrees. For if the fleshy substance begins to be consumed, it is the first degree of Hectic [fever]; if this same [substance] is consumed, it is the second. But if the feverish heat feeds upon the fibrous [substance], it is the third degree and is called marasmodes a wasting/emaciating fever. Yet the range of these is great.

V.
Hectic [fever] is also either simple or composite, as when it is joined with a putrid [fever]. Whether it can be joined with an Ephemera a fever lasting a single day is doubtful.

VI.
The causes of Hectic [fever] are internal or external.