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Rosa Anglica (Author: [unknown])

section 5

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Let us speak now of the causes of tertian fever, and understand that this is the strongest cause by which it is generated i.e. when a sanguine complexion is dominant in heat and dryness, it has a disposition to generate heat in itself {& praeparationem, ut generetur in eol talis calor.}’’

R. A. 672

, and this is the cause of the fever called tertiana continua, and the matter is inside the veins. The second cause preparative to unnatural heat {Secunda caussa est praeparans ad calorem innaturalem ...}’’

R. A. 672

is the excess of the third digestion in the proper members, and this is the cause of the fever called tertiana interpolata, for its matter is outside the veins.