DOCTRINA

Urine suppressed in the bladder signifies that the urethra, that is, the urinary tube, is obstructed. It is obstructed, however, either by a stone, or a clot, or thick humor, or hypersarcosis fleshy overgrowth, the latter of which is preceded by an ulcer. Hypersarcosis is easily detected in the penis by a catheter or an introduced wax candle. The same superfluous flesh born in the nostrils is visible to the senses, and prevents the inspiration and expiration of the brain. It is distinguished from sarcoma fleshy tumor, polypus nasal growth, and ozena ulcerous disease of the nostrils, which also occupy the nostrils. For hypersarcosis always follows an ulcer. But polypus and sarcoma are tumors in the nostrils, of which the polypus is circumscribed, but the sarcoma is diffused. Included also on the surface of the pericranium membrane surrounding the skull are dandruff-like scales, which signify that the head is filled with bad ichors thin, watery humors, according to Galen, book 2 of the composition of medicines according to place. Food and drink, likewise, contained in the stomach for a long time, where they bring a great feeling of weight, declare a scirrhus hard tumor or other tumor in the ecphysis the point of attachment/pylorus: for which reason the weight of the stomach persists, even if the concoction of the stomach is finished, which indeed can be relieved for some time by vomiting, but soon returns. Nevertheless, without this cause, sometimes the stomach is so distended that it is not even permitted to the sick person to breathe freely, until that