De hepatis inflammatione theses

And [that definition] may also suffice for this place, namely that inflammation of the liver is [a condition] from an influx with heat, pain, hardness, and resistance.

VI.
But just as Galen, discussing the obstruction of this viscus, says it sometimes resides in the gibbous convex part and sometimes in the hollow part: in equal fashion, speaking of phlegmon, he asserts that it sometimes seizes the gibbous part, and sometimes the hollow.

VII.
But whatever place may be given to the affection, it will have a cause, both internal and external.

VIII.
The internal, whether it be antecedent and remote, called synektikē holding together/connecting, or containing and proximate, is attributed to the blood.

IX.
The antecedent, which provides for the generation of the joined [affection] and fosters it, regards the blood insofar as it is poured out, or is apt and capable of being poured out.

X.
The containing, or synektikē holding together, holds the blood already poured out, putrefied, and inflamed.

XI.
But it is the opinion of physicians that blood is putrefied and inflamed when it is no longer contained by its own vessels, but is harbored in a foreign place.

XII.
It is poured out either because of the expulsive faculty of the transmitting and commanding parts, or because of the receiving part itself.

XIII.
Yet the whole body can command or transmit, or otherwise other parts, whether they are nearer or more distant, that are burdened or irritated.