Theses inaugurales et medicae de podagrica affectione

of some disease or the weakness of the feet, it cannot be repelled, or it is more copious, or more viscous, than can be expelled from there.

XIV.
The disease impeding or weakening the expulsion is either instrumental or organic, consisting for the most part of an increased magnitude, density, and impeded cavity; or it is an intemperance induced by a more prolonged influx.

XV.
Moreover, the part from which the influx occurs can be manifold. For both the whole body and any one or several parts deposit what is redundant in them to the affected locations.

XVI.
That matter is transmitted from the whole body is declared by the diseases of the whole body which are followed by gouty pains. This is testified to by Hippocrates, Aphorisms 4.44 & 45, and also Averroes in his Collectanea 7.31, who reports that he himself became gouty after an acute fever.

XVII.
Among the parts, the brain, now colder and more humid, now hotter, or even more humid, more frequently generates or receives from elsewhere pituito-serous excrements, and having accumulated them both inside and outside the skull, it eventually pushes them down to the joints under the skin, now through the spine and nerves, now through passages less visible to the senses.

XVIII.
Thus the liver, being hotter and drier, generates a bilious and melancholic juice, and when it is colder and more humid, it generates a raw and serous one, and communicates the same through the veins to the joints.

XIX.