Christo praeside et auspice: Theses hasce de Dolore Colico

XXV.
The subject of this disease, or the affected place, is, as appears from what has been said, the colon intestine: where this distinction must be held again, that the morbific cause sometimes consists in the ample cavity of the intestine; sometimes between the very tunics of the intestine, where both humors and flatus can easily insinuate themselves.

XXVI.
From these we will grasp the whole essence of this affection thus: that colic pain is a sensation, as they say, painful to the colon intestine, because of the retention of matter contrary to nature subsisting in it.

XXVII.
Since, however, there is such a diversity of causes concurring in this place; and this affection has much in common with others: so that the cure may be the more certain, each must be distinguished by its own signs beforehand.

XXVIII.
Some signs are diagnostic, some are prognostic: and of the former, some reveal the affection itself, some distinguish it from related ones. Again, of those that are of the affection itself, some show the species of the affection, some the affected place, some the efficient cause. And all these are taken from the site and property of the pain, from the damaged functions, from things helping and hurting, and from the excrements.

XXIX.
The species of the affection, or present colic pain, is indicated by pain of the belly, sometimes below, sometimes above the region of the navel: disgust for food: vomiting: suppression of feces and flatus: heaviness of the whole body: contraction of the legs: which are present, sometimes more, sometimes fewer, according to the vehemence of the affection itself.

XXX.
The affected place is denoted by the site of the pain, or the rumbling of flatus, if any should subsist, certainly in that part where the production of the intestine is.