Theses de febre hectica

VII.
Diseases contrary to nature are either universal or particular.

VIII.
Universal, such as a burning fever poorly treated, or because cold [remedies] were not given, inept poultices were applied, or because a three-day fast was imposed.

IX.
Particular, such as an affliction of the lung, chest, liver, stomach, mesenteric, jejunum, colon, uterus, or bladder.

X.
A hectic [fever] succeeding an inflamed diaphragm is accustomed to destroy [the patient] before it is perfected.

XI.
Among natural causes we include a hot and dry temperature, young age, cares, and anxieties.

XII.
External causes are non-natural things that can heat and dry, such as air, region, sparse, hot, and dry food, and wakefulness.

XIII.
Some signs are of a simple [fever], others of a composite one.

XIV.
Some signs of the simple [fever] are future, others are of the present.

XV.
Signs of the future are taken from things contrary to nature.