Christo praeside et auspice: Theses hasce de Dolore Colico

of the colon intestine. But if the matter is impacted between the tunics of the intestine, the pain is continuous and more fixed; nor does it yield easily to medicines that are either taken or administered from below: on the contrary, if it resides in the cavity, the pains are generally wandering, and are easily moved by medicines.

XXXI.

The signs of the causes are derived partly from the report of the patient, partly from the temperament of the body, and partly from those common sources.

XXXII.

A cold humor is indicated by a pain that is long-lasting and heavy, fixed in one part of the intestine like a stake, and it is greatly exacerbated at night: signs of some impaired digestion are present, or another cause that has introduced a cold humor into the body: warm remedies confer benefit; cold ones cause harm.

XXXIII.

A hot humor is followed by a biting and sharp, gnawing and lancinating pain, the ferocity of which not infrequently ignites a fever: there is great thirst, disgust for wine, sleeplessness, bilious vomiting, and fainting fits often creep in: the excrements of the bowels are rejected with pain, and in them something of egg-yolk colored or copper-colored bile is seen: the urines are very red: the pain is exacerbated by warm things; it is mitigated by cold ones. It frequently follows acute diseases, when bile has been sent to the intestines by a critical motion.

XXXIIII.

Flatus is detected by the rumbling of the lower belly, constant belching, a wandering pain without heaviness, and most of all by distension, by which the intestine is thought to be pierced as if by needles or bored through by an auger: the evacuations are often conglomerated into pellets like those of goats: they are often similar to the dung of cattle, which also float on water due to the abundance of flatus: a diet and other causes generating flatus have preceded: by warm dispersing medicines, and especially by any eruption of flatus, the sick are quickly relieved.

XXXV.

Twisting of the intestine, and its prolapse, tumors of neighboring parts, inflammation, worms, and stones rarely cause colic pain: and if any of these are present, they are known by their own specific signs, which are handed down in their...