{TCD 1299 page and line 30a39} Let it be asked here whether one can die in acute fevers after the digestion of the matter: it seems one can according to Galenus in the book On crises, for he says one can die in the decrease of the illness, and the decrease is after the digestion of the matter, so one can die after the digestion of the material in acute fevers. Then Constantinus says in the book of Theriace2 that he himself saw many die in the status of acute fevers, and the digestion is completed in the status according to Galenus, so one can die in acute fevers after the digestion of the matter. Then Galenus says that death comes from weakness and decrease of strength, and the decrease of the illness is the period in which the strength is weakest, and the decrease follows the digestion of the matter, so one can die after the digestion of the matter in acute fevers. Then Galenus says in the second book of Prognosticorum, in the signs of peripneumonia, that the matter can be digested in this illness, and that it cannot be expelled, and he says there are two things which must be examined in illnesses from which one recovers, i.e. the digestion of the matter and the strength of nature for its proper expulsion, and one can die through the non-expulsion of the matter even though it be digested, as is clear in peripneumonia, so one can die in acute fevers after the digestion of the matter. This is opposed according to Galenus in the book De Crisi who says he never saw anyone die who had the complete signs of digestion. We answer that question and say one cannot die in the natural course after the digestion of the