Diexodus medica de hepatis

59. If the crasis fails by a double quality, the properties of both will follow in the body, and at the same time those which can be gathered from the composites: as from hot and dry, the growth of hair; from cold and moist, the defect of the same. In sum, if the Heart and Liver agree in temperament, the whole body will be disposed according to it.

60. But if something is ἀντιπαθής antipathetic/opposed, the heat, coldness, or dryness of the heart will be able to blunt the contrary qualities in the liver and reduce them to the middle, though not all equally; but the dryness of the liver cannot be blunted by the moisture of the heart, because this is an ἀνυπαίτιον unblameable/irrefutable quality.

61. In other ways, departures from the ἀλογία proportion/measure do not so much injure the function of the liver, unless they are very great, and can be known with difficulty; yet some have their own signs.

62. As the abundance of blood of a larger liver, and a more intense appetite for food; of a smaller, the opposite, and discomfort from little food; the amplitude and narrowness of the veins is conjectured from how the body is affected by the use of more viscous or thinner food.

63. But it argues every health according to habit by δυνάμει potentiality from morbific causes; it is detected by ἐνεργείᾳ actuality, and in an incipient state of disease, συμπάθεια sympathy, and by the weakness of actions; which constitution is the step nearest to disease.

64. It is understood to have arrived at this when there is a sensible harm to the actions; for the σφάλματα errors/faults which are not detected by the senses are looked upon by no craftsman, not even a mathematician.

65. Moreover, this viscus of ours is not only subjected to the common necessity of changes, but also the evils by which it is afflicted occur more often and more easily, and are joined with greater detriment to the whole, as they bring calamity to our foundation.