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THe causes of Diseases of Solution of Unity, * 1.1 although they are very many, yet all may be reduced into five ranks; for all things that dissolve the continuity of any part, either cut, or gnaw, or knock, or bend and break, or burn: those that cut are all sharp bodies, which whether edglings, or wound with the
point, as all kinds of weapons and darts, thorns, the biting of living Creatures, and such like. All sharp things erode, as hu∣mours, * 1.2 and all sharp, eroding, putrifying, burning medicines. Those that are heavy, and great, and blunt, knock, as stones, woods, * 1.3 dashing the body against hard things; which if they happen to a part that can give way to it, they bruise it; if they happen to a hard part which cannot yeild, they break it; they knock and break those things that fill the part, as plenty of hu∣mours, and store of wind, or they powerfully dry or violently di∣late the part, as dancing, and all loud singing, and heavy bur∣then oppressing, to which belong immoderate cold. Lastly, hot Irons burnt, * 1.4 and other mettals, and hot and fiery things.
Causes of Diseases of Solution of Unity. Of cutting
Eroding.
Knocking and break∣ing. Eating.
Burning.