Diexodus medica de hepatis

afflicted, and they occur more often and more easily, and are joined with greater detriment to the whole, as they bring calamity to our foundation.

66. It is a principal part, serving the whole by its function, constructed by nature as less ἀντιτύπῳ resistant/impenetrable, consisting of a structure exposed to injuries because of its narrowness; the occasions for which occur with its constant duty.

67. Where, however, since it is hidden in a deeper place, and its action and its lesions are not presented to the senses at first, the knowledge of its afflictions is more intricate and closer to conjecture.

68. But it is now established that its proper action is the generation of blood, and in this, the attraction, comprehension, and expulsion of σπέρμας seeds/nutritive matter; its corporeal substance is constituted from flesh, the ducts of the vessels, and a tunic.

69. Just as the integrity of actions is to be ascribed to the virtue of the parts—which virtue is contained in moderation according to nature—so the vice of the same will be from the diathesi disposition/condition, which has departed from the moderation of nature to the extremes.

70. That there has been a departure is known by asymmetry, when there is lacking in the motion and state of the body what would be present by the law of nature: as if natural blood is not provided, it is not purged of superfluities, it is not supplied in the right quantity, or if there is an error in the ἀνάδοσις distribution/assimilation; then if the tranquility of the body is disturbed by some pain.

71. These things happen to the viscus either by some proper affection, and when it is laboring first, or by the connection it has with other parts, brought into sympatheiā sympathy; it is joined indeed with all things which [relate] to nutrition.