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XLIV.
Pain is either particular or universal. Particular pain occupies some part of the body, and it is either external or internal.
XLV.
Such is pain of the head, kephalalgia headache, used generally for any head pain, whose species are kephalaia inveterate headache of the whole head and hemicrania migraine; it is also used specifically for a recent injury to the head: ophthalmia inflammation of the eye, hippopha a specific form of eye or ocular ailment; likewise toothache, and types of angina sore throat/strangulation.
XLVI.
[Pains] of the chest, such as true and false pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs and liver: pain of the kidneys, the colon, the ileum, the rectum: the bladder, strangury painful urination, dysuria difficulty urinating: of the joints, such as chiragra gout in the hands, podagra gout in the feet.
XLVII.
Likewise, there are external [pains], either in the skin alone or in the underlying parts as well: such as excoriation, fissures, wounds, ulcers, scabies mange/itch, pruritus itching, and erysipelas a specific skin infection.
XLVIII.
Universal: such as horror, cold, and heat of the whole [body] in fevers.
GENERAL PROGNOSTICS.
XLIX.
Pain and sleeplessness damage the vital forces refers to Galen, Methodus Medendi.
L.
Dissolutions of the vital forces arise from the vehemence of pain, as Galen testifies in Book 1, Ad Glauconem 14.