Diexodus medica de hepatis

that are colder by nature, or cooled by a way of life in water or more watery foods. It is caused not only by things that are potentially refrigerating, but also by those that are such in actual external effect, especially if, while the viscus is overheated by motion or for some other reason, a sudden contact occurs. Furthermore, it often follows immoderate evacuations.

83. A humid intemperies is rarely present without matter, yet sometimes it is, such as when, with a coldness that dissolves its concretion, the flesh becomes looser and softer. The blood hence becomes more watery, thinner, and less fibrous, by which the nourished parts turn out softer and more humid, with the added evil of cachexia.

84. Those of a nature or age similar in temperament are prone to this, as are those whose life is spent in idleness, and it comes into use as the quality of diet corresponds. If humidification precedes, the humor will be thinner, with which the substance is imbued. It is discerned by extinguished thirst and an increase of humid perittomatum superfluous residues, and by diseases having a catarrho flow/catarrh nature.

85. Contrary to this genesis, a drying of the viscus supervenes, as heat consumes the moisture or the moisture itself fails, so that it almost withers away. The blood becomes scantier and thicker. There is dryness of the parts of the mouth and intense thirst. The color inclines toward blackness. If the viscus is besieged for a longer time, the whole body suffers phthisis and suppressed evacuations.

86. This affection is to be feared by those whose bodies are drier by nature, and who have aged more quickly through a laborious life, cares, or other disturbances. They provide προφάσεις pretexts/causes that dissolve or digest humors into vapors from outside and within, or in other ways exhaust the moisture.

87. Cuma