Theses medicae de febrium continuarum diagnōsi & therapeia

LXIV.
All symptomatic fever is in the class of continuous ones, nor has any intermittent one ever been seen.

LXV.
Its immediate matter and containing cause is not in the larger veins, but in some part from which either some putrid matter or a foul and putrid vapor creeps into the heart.

LXVI.
There are many kinds of this. One follows inflammation: which itself is manifold by reason of the inflamed part, which is either further from the heart or very close to it.

LXVII.
Another kind of symptomatic fever is much more obscure, and it contains a slow fever.

LXVIII.
It is made from a latent obstruction and putrefaction, which tenaciously adheres to a visceral organ and is impacted, such that the very substance of the organ is often weakened.

LXIX.
Of all the putrid fevers, it is the mildest: the patient is pressed by no graver symptom: often they do not even think themselves to be ill.

Here I am forced to provide less than I promised. For when I was about to speak of the pestilential fever, in the name of the wise, the bedel of the Rector announced that I should finish printing the Theses early, so that they could be distributed to the students of medicine two days before the disputation. Therefore, the evil plague will be absent from here.

The sum of the cure for all fevers is this: that you cool and moisten through a suitable regimen of diet, with broths prepared from lettuce, purslane, and sorrel, with cold air or air cooled by art, and with a drink of