Diexodus medica de hepatis

98. If the obstruction has invaded the capillary veins of the portal, the chyle—but chyle that is more perfect in the form of blood—or even the blood itself is refunded into the bowels. The body is diminished by the lack of food; and while this state of affairs continues, it happens that the veins are distended with a sense of pain, and even those that are more slender in the mesentery are ruptured, and the spaces become swollen and inflamed with humor.

99. When the obstruction of the ὑπολεμματα conduits/efferent ducts occurs, that humor overflows into the blood, and the condition is detected by the color of the body, the diseases of that type, and sometimes by the solution of cohesion and by a tumor.

100. But the cause of the humors overflowing in the blood, and the diseases that arise from them, can lie in the obstruction or another vice of the receptacles. Just as it happens that chyle is carried through the intestines undigested or otherwise disposed, through the affection of the stomach, the intestines, and the mesenteric veins. A flux of blood, however, happens by the suppression of the matrix; all of which are made known by the proper lesions and pains of the parts.

101. A hepatic flux, or hepatitis liver inflammation, is not one disease in species, just as a stomachic one is not; but it is called by a homonymous name, a symptom arising from many species of diseases. That which is of the liver is discerned from the stomachic one by the vivid color of the body failing or being changed.

102. An incomplete blockage of the ducts occurs from a slow impurity of the blood, as if the inner surface of the vessels were smeared; where the blood that penetrates, being thinner, and the urine drawn from it, have a similar consistency.

103. Flatulent matter, enclosed in the narrowings of the veins as if in certain vesicles, causes an obstruction.