De venis mesaraicis obstructis ipsarumque ita affectarum curatione Theses sive Pronunciata LX

humor: as well as ἀπεψίαν indigestion and δυσπεψίαν difficult digestion of the stomach, the common parent of all these. For the faults of the first digestion, as physicians say, are not corrected by the second, much less the third.

XXVII.
All these causes have their origin from external things. For cold air freezes, dry air hardens, hot air burns, and turbid air thickens the humors.

XXVIII.
Furthermore, a diet that is colder, thicker, more succulent, or more disordered does this. Likewise, foods, even if of the best quality, when taken in excess, achieve this; just as it is known to have happened in the past, when those Horatian belly-tuns and Epicurus’s herd of pigs lived in the mesentery: whom a certain Italian poet not ineptly compares to fountains, which draw in more than they digest.

XXIX.
Spices ingested with food accelerate obstructions by accident; just as wines, through untimely use and excessive quantity, contribute to crudities and obstructions, especially thick and turbid ones. Whence we see that gluttonous, drunken, delicate, and extravagant people abound in obstructions, are pale, etc., and that gluttony is the mother of obstructions.

XXX.
To external causes, we also refer immoderate sleep, idleness, passions of the mind, and all other things that are immoderate in themselves or provide an opening for obstructions by accident.

XXXI.
Nor should the tight binding of the loins be neglected, by which, while the slender...