Theses de sudore

that vapors exhaling athroos all at once/in a mass can sometimes, upon meeting colder air, condense into humor as well. We recognize the divine Hippocrates (book 1 On Diseases and the book On Breaths) as a proponent of this opinion, in addition to Aretaeus in book 1 of On the Causes and Signs of Chronic Diseases, chapter 15.

XX.
The form of sweat is the same as that of whey in the veins: except that some sweetness is contained in the latter, which has vanished in sweat. For sweat, like urine, acquires a certain saltiness and acrimony through the action of heat; by which, once stimulated, nature expels the serum through the pores and the emulgent vessels and the ureters.

XXI.
The seat of sweat is the pores of the skin.

XXII.
The purpose is for the body to be purged of superfluous ichor; so that fevers, mange, leichenes lichen/skin eruptions, knusmoi itching, keria honeycomb-like pustules, leprosy, exanthemata breakouts/rashes (which our people call finenn pimples/pustules), and other ailments are less likely to be generated.

XXIII.
Rightly, therefore, we explode the opinion of Diocles, and of Actuarius in Method of Medicine book 1, chapter 23, who judged that sweats are entirely contrary to nature. Galen (Aphorisms 1.15 and On the Differences of Symptoms final chapter). For otherwise, the same would have to be said of urine, sputum, the evacuation of the bowels, and the menstrual purging of the uterus.

XXIIII.
We must now arrive at the differences of sweats; from which we shall offer those that are most frequent and especially worthy of a physician's knowledge.

XXV.
Natural sweats are those that share in some saltiness and a certain bitterness (such as is detected in the decoction of Indian wood); which are rare; which are moderately pale; which are of a mediocre consistency; which do not smell bad.