Cassii iatrosophistae naturales et medicinales quaestiones LXXXIIII, circa hominis naturam & morbos aliquot

CASSI I.

VI. Why do those who suffer from the liver, spleen, or lungs lie down more easily on the affected part, when it is probable that pains are intensified in compressed locations? It must be answered that if one were to lie down on the opposite side, the affected location would be suspended in a certain way, and with it suspended, there would be a greater sense of pain.

VII. Why are the extreme parts of the body, almost in general, chilled during exacerbations? Because the matter runs back to that place from which the principle of motion arises: that happens in the middle of the viscera. It is probable, therefore, that when matter is carried from the body toward the middle from wherever it may be, the extreme parts are first deprived of the matter contained within them. Consequently, being destitute of their humors, they suffer chilling.