De dysenteria theses

due to which semi-cooked blood flows back into the intestines, from which it is ejected through the anus like the washings of freshly slaughtered meat. They commonly call this the hepatic flux.

V.

But having left aside the three species of dysentery already enumerated, it is our intention to debate the fourth and the one properly called by that name.

VI.

It is, however, understood in two ways: sometimes as a symptom, under which name it is also referred to among the species of bloody excretion; sometimes as a disease, and then it has its genus in the solution of continuity.

VII.

Dysentery properly defined, insofar as it is taken as a symptom, is a bloody, first—and shredded—and finally purulent flux of the bowels with pain and biting in the intestines, supervening upon ulcers.

IIX.

Insofar as it is considered a disease, it is the ulceration of the intestines itself, which exists as the cause of such a flux of the bowels.

IX.

The external causes of this disease are biting and vehemently.