{TCD 1299 page and line 30b17} Let it be asked here whether a digestive should be given in the increase of the illness; it seems it should not, for Galenus says the digestive is given to diminish the matter of the illness, and it cannot be diminished in the increase, so a digestive should not be given in the increase. Then Galenus says a digestive should not be given when the unfavourable accidental ailments are very strong, so since the unfavourable accidental ailments are very strong in the increase, a digestive should not be given then. Then digestives are not used except when the natural heat is powerful to act in them, and the natural heat is being turned into fierce heat in the increase, so a digestive should not be given in the increase of the illness. Then Constantinus says the increase is simply the perfecting of digestion, so since the digestion is completed in it, a digestive should not be given in it. This is opposed, and we say on the authority of Galenus that a digestive should be given in the beginning and the increase of the illness. We answer that and say that digestives are divided in three ways, i.e. evident digestion, obscure digestion, and perfected digestion, and we say that the obscure digestion is in the beginning of the illness, and it is evident in the increase, and it is perfected in the status, and this distinction is made for a curable illness.