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wounded meninges of the brain, and especially if it has been vomited after a fall from a height or a blow to the head. For this has flowed from the brain through the esophagus the food pipe into the ventricle, where it has concreted with the passage of time and delay. Therefore, for those ruptured and fallen from a height, whatever dissolves blood concreted within and prevents it from concreting is usually administered. Furthermore, that which is vomited while also mixed with chyle signifies that the ventricle has been eroded by sharp medicines or foods; for this reason, the ventricle is affected with stinging pain where the ulcer is present. Likewise, blood that is spat out, if it appears thin and is of a crimson color, portends an ulcer of the trachea arteria the windpipe. But that which is coughed up frothy, black, and also thin indicates an ulcerated lung. A black, but thick, substance is also spat out by those whose accustomed evacuation is suppressed. Furthermore, that which is thin and mixed with phlegm and is thrown out by coughing with a stinging pain in the side flows from pleurisy inflammation of the lung lining. But that which is frothy and yellowish, if it is spat out with severe chest pain, signifies peripneumonia pneumonia excited by yellow bile. Furthermore, blood flowing from the penis argues for an ulcer of either the kidneys, the bladder, the neck of the bladder, or finally the penis itself. But that which flows from an ulcerated penis is small and pure. But that which flows from ulcerated kidneys is plentiful and mixed with urine,