Theses inaugurales et medicae de podagrica affectione

XXXIV.
Presages concerning the future outcome will be known most easily from the nature and condition of the aforementioned things. Speaking generally, every gouty affection is difficult to cure, and all the more difficult the more numerous and serious the symptoms are that it has joined to it.

XXXV.
That which arises from blood is more benign and shorter than the others. For it can be easily removed by bloodletting, as is gathered from Galen, On Cure by Bloodletting chapter 18, and On the Composition of Medicines according to Places 2.

XXXVI.
That which arises from cold, thick, and tenacious matter is healed more slowly than that which is born from hot and thin matter, as Galen testifies in his commentary on Aphorisms 6.49.

XXXVII.
That which consists of a mixture of several humors, just as it is not easy to recognize, so it exists as very difficult to cure, according to the opinion of Paul of Aegina, book 3, chapter 78.

XXXVIII.
The denser and deeper the substance of the receiving part is, and the weaker its expelling power, the more prolonged the affection. Hence, the affection that occupies the heel is more stubborn.

XXXIX.
Also, the more transmitting parts that conspire toward the destruction of the recipient, and the further they have departed from their natural state, the more difficult the cure will be rendered.

XL.
That which is hereditary can hardly ever be rooted out, just as that which has become nodular and has inveterated until old age, or began only at that time.