Ex gratiosi ordinis Med. Bas. decreto M. Jacobus Seidelius Olaviensis Silesius ... ad X. Calend. Octob. hora locoque solito de arthritide respondebit

16. Those who have long fevers may develop either swellings or pains in the joints (Hippocrates, 4 Aphorism 44).
17. Whoever is troubled by a long-standing hip malady, if the hip slips out and slips back in again, they have mucous matter (6 Aphorism 59). And those who are troubled by a long-standing hip malady, if the hip slips out, the leg wastes away and they limp, if they are not cauterized (6 Aphorism 60).
18. Gouty diseases are for the most part moved in the spring and autumn (Hippocrates, 6 Aphorism 55).
19. Whatever gouty diseases occur, once the inflammation is settled, they subside in forty days (6 Aphorism 49).
20. Eunuchs neither suffer from gout nor become bald (6 Aphorism 28). A woman does not suffer from gout unless her menses have failed (6 Aphorism 29). A boy does not suffer from gout before the use of Venus (6 Aphorism 30).

21. For the cure to be instituted correctly, the indications must be taken from the nature of the disease, its causes, and the subject.
22. Because the disease has pain attached to it, it must first be mitigated. This will be done according to the diversity of the causes with either hot or cold tempered medicines. One must abstain from more vehement ones as much as possible, because these not only thicken the material and impede its dissolution, but also by constricting it, they drive it from external parts to the joints and from there to the principal parts, inducing more grave symptoms, such as trembling of the heart, epilepsy, paralysis, etc.; the former, however, attract more material from other parts, and once the thinner part is dissolved, they compel and harden the rest.
23. But if the vehemence of the pain demands a narcotic, they may indeed be applied, but only in a hot cause, and on the condition that after their use, to avoid the aforementioned dangers, the parts are immediately refreshed with hot medicines.
24. Here it must also be diligently considered whether the flux is still occurring or has already occurred. For if it has occurred, the aforementioned medicines adapted to the affected place will suffice. But if it is still occurring, it will be necessary to revoke the humor and draw its impetus to the opposite part by means of frictions, ligatures,