Decisiones praecipuorum aliquot aporēmatōn iatrophilosophikōn

C O R O L L A R Y.

We rightly refer scurvy to the "pale sickness" of Hippocrates (book On Internal Affections), with Langius (vol. 2, Epist. 13). It is made from a thin humor, which Aristotle (book 3, On the Parts of Animals, ch. 7) calls "excess moisture," and Hippocrates (book 4 On Diseases and the book On Airs, Waters, and Places) calls "water" and "dropsy": which Alexander of Aphrodisias also follows (sect. 2, prob. 44). For that black bile filth is too thick to be able to induce a turbid mixture. Galen, 3 On Affected Parts, ch. 5 and 7; and the book On Black Bile, ch. 2. Therefore, those are prone to this disease whose stomach is cold, but whose spleen or liver is obstructed and scirrhous; and who have a body similar to those who suffer from cachexia and leucophlegmatia.

S E M E I O T I C O N.

Whether the flow of menses after conception always indicates abortion?

The veins through which the lunar flow is purged, rising from the inner seat of the haunches, recurring hither and thither, are variously distributed through the exterior sides of the female sinus, and they impart some nourishment to the pudenda themselves. The right vein of the uterus is implanted from the trunk of the vena cava, the left from the left emulgent, so that, specifically, with a greater abundance of serum supplied to the uterine liver, it might more easily be a "vehicle of nourishment" for the extremely thin filaments of the umbilical cord. The greatest part of these is implanted into the higher seat of the uterus. Therefore, in some who are filled with much blood, the menses can be sequestered without danger to the fetus, even with the mouth of the uterus closing precisely (which some admit with Hippocrates, 2 Prognostics, and Galen, book 5 On Symptoms and Causes, ch. 3), especially in the first time, in which "little is cheated by the blood for the embryo, as it is still very small": for which reason it is also named by Hippocrates and Galen everywhere as a "conception" κύημα. This is also testified to by open hemorrhoids, through which sometimes blood flows in the pregnant, not only blacker, through the notable vein which [rises] from a branch