Christo praeside et auspice: Theses hasce de Dolore Colico

VIII.
Other antecedent causes move these proximate causes: which themselves are also proximate causes by reason of the disease.

IX.
For they solve the continuity, whatsoever brings trouble to the intestines, either by distending, as are flatus gas, crude or pituitous phlegmatic humor, collected in great quantity; or by corroding, as is acrid humor, bile, or natural excrement, or aeruginous copper-colored/bitter, false phlegm, or worms adhering to the intestines; or by compressing, as a calculus stone subsisting in those parts, the twisting of an intestine, or its prolapse outside the peritoneum, as happens in an enterocele hernia.

X.
Intemperies is moved by those things which intensely heat, as bilious humors, inflammation of the intestines, or erysipelas a skin infection, which in our time is found to be frequent when the intestines of those dead of colic are dissected: or those which cool, as acid phlegm, and the glassy phlegm of Praxagoras, from which Galen himself reported by his own example that the most savage pains are excited.

XI.
Prior to these are the causes which either generate those proximate ones, or accumulate them in the intestines, or excite and move them when they are dormant.

XII.
They are generated either by external defect, from inconvenient diet, from gluttony, from drinking cold water, thick beer, immature, sour, or astringent wine, or water cooled by snow or ice: from the eating of raw vegetables, acrid foods, watercress, mustard, pepper, or others which are easily corrupted: from hot and burning medicines, vigils, fasting: from intensely cold or hot air: from buildings recently plastered with gypsum, lime, or other metallic substances: from the exposure of the body, as if one does not sufficiently protect the belly, sits on a stone too long, or stays in a place exposed to winds, or otherwise breathing out foul and malignant vapors.

XIII.
Or by internal defect, such as a bodily habit more adapted to the accumulation of this or that humor: a vehement dyscrasia bad mixture of humors of the internal viscera, as if the gallbladder or spleen is obstructed; if, because of the coldness of the stomach, the chyle digested food fluid is not sufficiently processed, and from there is carried to the liver and the body's habit; so also, if because of the heat of the liver, a great production of bile is made in the body.