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

XXXVI.
To these are added the signs called συνδρομόντα co-occurring symptoms. A dry tongue, a pale and bloated face. Diminished appetite for food and sex. Thirst. Copious, raw, and highly colored urine. Hard, rough, and itching lips. Rumbling and tension in the hypochondria, and similar signs.

XXXVII.
As these persist, atrophy and total wasting of the body follow. Hence, Galen names the liver a θρέμμα ἄγριον wild fosterling, because, in the manner of wild beasts, lacking food and prey from the vicinity, it rages against itself. By exercising this cruelty, it kindles heat beyond nature in the veins and immediately sends it to the heart. Since the heart's inner depths are ignited at the same time, it consumes all the parts of the body as they burn with a hectic persistent, consumptive fever.

XXXVIII.
The nature of the obstructing humor is easily conjectured from the face, upon which the overall temperature of the body is graphically depicted in its colors, and (as the Greeks say) it is αὐτογραφεῖσαι self-written. But the vomit and the fluxes demonstrate both the colors and the substances better. If these are slimy, flatulent, pituitous, viscous, glutinous, hail-like, and so forth, they argue quite strongly for the nature of the obstructing humor.

XXXIX.
If they are obstructed by stones or by a chalky and concrete material, a piercing sensation is present first, which produces pain: inflammation follows the pain, and ulcers or dysentery follow these ulcers.

XL.
To properly undertake the path of the cure, account must be taken of the cause,