Symptoms of imposthumes formed through crisis,399 that turn to pus: when the sickness400 is not acute, without hot matter present from hot humours, and the force is neither strong nor weak, but between them. These imposthumes come out in medial diseases401 that do not cause death suddenly, nor quick recovery; for it is necessary where this imposthume arises, that the disease be of long (chronic)402 duration, and the humours gross and hard to digest, and that the matter be not wholly purged, as Galen says in the second book of Prognostica, for then the matter is terminated through the imposthume or by degrees403 or through an insensible dissolution. Galen says in the third book of Prognostica, when the humours are hot, the