De hepatis inflammatione theses

I.
Just as almost all other viscera and members are tried by a twofold type of disease, so too is the liver. For often it is affected by a simple intemperance imbalance of the four humors, and subsequently we see a tumor exceeding nature added to the intemperance, which is evident in inflammation, erysipelas, scirrhus, etc.

II.
Having passed over the other affections by which this most noble viscus, rightly numbered among the principal parts, is wont to be seized and afflicted, we shall for the present undertake the discussion of that one alone, which the ancients, as Hippocrates and Galen note, call hepatitis inflammation of the liver, and later authors call hepatos phlegmone inflammation of the liver, just as it is also called by us today by the accepted and common name of inflammation of the liver or phlegmon.

III.
That the liver should readily fall into this disease is not absurd, since, after the heart, we have no viscus as hot as this. Added to this is the fact that, because of the most frequent veins, it suffers a great flux, or rather reflux, of blood.

IV.
But if we look at the generation of the disease, and thus the cause, it will not happen in any other way in the liver than in the rest of the parts and other members; for the origin of all phlegmons is common, their generation is one and the same, and the causes are similar.

V.
Therefore, since there is no disagreement in these matters, the definition already long used may suffice for this place as well, namely that inflammation of the liver is [a condition] from an influx with heat, pain, hardness, and resistance.