ABSTRACT
And diarrhoea ariseth also from the intestines (or, bowels), either from weakness of their natural powers, or when they "cough" through the natural roughness that they possess, and there taketh place in them that which is called a "passage",
Fol. 1946. or when the chyme of bile or of phlegm I becometh collected in them and inciteth them to evacuation, or when there is griping of some kind, or when some opening of the veins, or arteries, which are between the intestines, taketh place and produceth a discharge of blood, or when there are boils and fistulas in the anus, and these incite the belly to make a motion. These are, in brief, all the causes that produce a discharge of the belly, and these are the places in which they subsist. Now, their exact symptoms are well known, both from the canons of the art of medicine, which have been written down in the Second Chapter of this treatise, and from the indications that are here laid down.
