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A Treatise on Fevers (Author: [unknown])

Section 18

{TCD 1302 fol col and line fol 6a2line22} Let it be asked here whether crude humours are generated from food given in the paroxysm. It seems they are not, for Galenus says in the aphorism of paroxysm that the ebullition is strongest then, and when the ebullition is greatest it is then easiest to boil and digest the food, so for that reason crude humours are not generated from the food given in the paroxysm. Constantinus opposes this, for he says if food is given in the paroxysm at the time of these three faults (or for ‘cailed’, ‘qualities’), namely frigus, rigor and oripilacio, that crude humours are generated from them and one is in danger from those humours, so

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crude humours are generated from food given in the paroxysm. And crude humours are formed from two causes, i.e. from weakness of the natural heat, from winch an increase of phlegm is created in the complexion by a humour leaving its own measure and becoming immoderate, as reddish bile offending in quantity, and black bile likewise. We answer chat and say that crude viscous humours are generated by the food given in the paroxysm.