De hepatis inflammatione theses

can, as is proper, and induce pain.

XXI.
Areteus a prominent ancient Greek physician adds both age and time to the evident causes. He affirms that the prime of life is the most susceptible age, and autumn is the season of the year most prone to these inflammations.

XXII.
Since signs contribute not a little, but rather a great deal, to the diagnosis and thus to the knowledge of the affliction, it is necessary that we descend to them. These are either diagnostica diagnostic or prognostica prognostic.

XXIII.
Diagnostica are either universal and common to both parts, or particular and proper to each one.

XXIV.
Universal or common signs are gathered chiefly from these three sources: namely, from impaired actions, changed excrements, and accidental symptoms.

XXV.
Those sought from impaired actions are generally these: the mind rendered somewhat duller, sleep shorter than usual, difficulty in breathing, a slight and dry cough, and a pulse that is hard, unequal, and as it were, leaping; the same is also large, swift, and frequent; nausea, vomiting, hiccup, sluggishness, and slowness in movement.

XXVI.
Changed excretions in this disease testify primarily to: bile vomiting, yellowish in the beginning, and greenish at the end; the bowel, from the beginning constipated, later liquid, discharging raw and bilious matter; urine saffron-colored, reddish, and acrid.

XXVII.
The signs taken from accidental symptoms will be: when the disease begins, the tongue is at first dry and reddening, and in the course of