Theses medicae de febrium continuarum diagnōsi & therapeia

and to open a vein, especially if it has exceeded a day or two for fear of a putrid fever: otherwise, it is calmed by no subsidy of art, but ends of its own accord.

XXV.

All those endowed with a hot and dry temperament are liable to this fever.

ON THE SYNOCHUS FEVER.

XXVI.

The synochus fever, called continuous, is a certain simple effervescence of the blood, and inflammation without putrefaction, phlogosis inflammation.

XXVII.

Its matter is not simple blood, but that which consists of an equal mixture of the four humors, ignited between the armpits and the groins.

XXIIX.

It is divided into homotonon equal-toned, when as much matter is dissipated as is inflamed; into epakmasikon increasing, when the inflammation is greater than the dissipation; and parakmasikon decreasing, when more is dissipated than is newly inflamed.

XXIX.

The causes and signs are the same as in the diaria, except that the signs are more manifest here: the face is suffused with much redness, great tossing fatigues the patient, the veins are greatly distended with plenty of blood, the temples throb, and finally, all things are more vehement. The pulse also and the urine recede a little further from nature.

XXX.

There is also a Notha spurious/bastard Synochus from the excessive agitation of bile and hot humors. The former falls upon a tempered and well-conditioned body: but the latter falls upon a hot and dry and clearly bilious one.