Decisiones praecipuorum aliquot aporēmatōn iatrophilosophikōn

of Aristotle, 2 On Generation and Corruption, and Thaddaeus of Florence above 1 Prognostics, opinion 13. Galen establishes the same in his book On the Times of Diseases, ch. 6, although in 1 On the Differences of Fevers, ch. 6, he brings forward something else. Those who follow the slippery tracks of those who, with Galen (1 On Crises, ch. 12) and Gentilis (1, fen 2, doct 3, tract 2, ch 6), deny as if with a cosmic compass—noted with pricks—that a sediment ὑπόστασιν ought to appear in the urine of the healthy, cling to very weak foundations; since it is most copious when digestion is most successful (Galen, 1 Aphorisms 15). For the sediment ὑπόστασις is nothing other, in the opinion of Bertrucius of Bologna (chapter on stone of the kidneys), than a pituitous and melancholic excrement, which is separated and expelled with serum through the ureters: or it is diseased blood αἷμα νοσῶδες, and indeed "either by nature or by disease," and either "thicker and wetter" or "thinner and blacker," and altogether "more turbid," as Aristotle speaks in 3 History of Animals, ch. 19, and 4 On the Parts of Animals, ch. 2. Which is also the reason that he traces the serum ἰχῶρα back to pituitous excrement: of which he establishes two species: One is phlegm φλέγμα, namely that which is watery in the blood, thicker and undigested ἄπεπτον, and a superfluity indeed, but of useful first food, and for the sake of the blood, which can yield into nourishment by further digestion. The other is serum ἰχῶρα specifically so-called, thinner and "unrestrained and of necessity serum," as if useless: whose digestion is therefore despaired of, because it has degenerated into a completely watery nature (1 On the Generation of Animals, ch. 18; 2 On the Parts of Animals, ch. 4; book 3, History of Animals, ch. 19). Because Celsus seems to be of the same opinion (Book 2, ch. 12). And these things indeed happen necessarily, but "by accident" κατὰ συμβεβηκός, as Aristotle feels in the cited passages. For Galen is the authority (1 On Preserving Health, ch. 3) that nothing of that kind can ever be set upon our table, from which, when taken and turned into the substance of the parts to be nourished, no portion at all as useless should be cut away. "For that which is eaten comes from the whole, just as it is not for those things created by art. For it would be necessary to make it edible, but now art removes the useless, and nature does the rest," says the Philosopher, 3 On the Generation of Animals, ch. 11. So that we may also pass over the procatarctic antecedent/preliminary causes in silence: the force of which, occurring at every moment, no one can escape.

Therefore, neither worms, nor pus, nor the sediment ὑπόστασις of urine [arise] from Putrefaction.