Christo praeside et auspice: Theses hasce de Dolore Colico

sometimes of little sands, or fragments of stones: of which nothing is usually noticed in the urine of those with colic.

XLII.
Prognostics in colic are generally considered to be these. That pain is resolved more easily which wanders rumbling here and there, and which arrives at intervals, than that which is fixed in a certain place.

XLIII.
That which depends on a twisting of the intestine, on a hernia, or on inflammation, is more stubborn than others, and sometimes transitions into ileus.

XLIIII.
Also that species is stubborn which occurs due to a great and inveterate dyscrasia bad temperament or imbalance of the viscera. For then the generation of excrements is perennial: and while we succor one part with medicines, we usually increase the evil of another.

XLV.
Frequent vomiting, hiccups, difficulty in breathing, chilling of the extremities, cold sweat, trembling of the heart, fainting, if they arise due to the vehemence of the pain, is a very dangerous matter.

XLVI.
Not rarely does Colic degenerate into other diseases, into epilepsy, resolution of the limbs, pains of the joints: and this especially when it has drawn its origin from a bilious humor, or thin phlegm, or that which has been attenuated by the force of the disease and of medicines. And if difficulty in breathing or hoarseness arises through these diseases, the situation is nearly desperate.

XLVII.
Now that the essence of the affection is known, and the causes have been distinguished by their types as well as their proper signs, it is next that we construct the method of curing from these as if from foundations.

XLVIII.
Colic pain itself, insofar as it is a symptom, provides no indication from itself: since when the disease from which it depends is removed, it also immediately vanishes. But the disease that causes the pain demands its own expulsion: the subject in which the disease adheres demands its own preservation.