excuseth Diocles, lib. 3. consil. 35. because
that oftentimes in a strong head and constitution,
a generous spirit, and a valiant, these symptoms appear
not, by reason of his valour and courage. [2635]Hercules
de Saxonia (to whom I subscribe) is of the same mind
(which I have before touched) that fear and sorrow
are not general symptoms; some fear and are not sad;
some be sad and fear not; some neither fear nor grieve.
The rest are these, beside fear and sorrow, [2636]"sharp
belchings, fulsome crudities, heat in the bowels,
wind and rumbling in the guts, vehement gripings,
pain in the belly and stomach sometimes, after meat
that is hard of concoction, much watering of the stomach,
and moist spittle, cold sweat, importunus sudor,
unseasonable sweat all over the body,” as Octavius
Horatianus lib. 2. cap. 5. calls it; “cold
joints, indigestion, [2637]they cannot endure their
own fulsome belchings, continual wind about their
hypochondries, heat and griping in their bowels, praecordia
sursum convelluntur, midriff and bowels are pulled
up, the veins about their eyes look red, and swell
from vapours and wind.” Their ears sing
now and then, vertigo and giddiness come by fits,
turbulent dreams, dryness, leanness, apt they are
to sweat upon all occasions, of all colours and complexions.
Many of them are high-coloured especially after meals,
which symptom Cardinal Caecius was much troubled with,
and of which he complained to Prosper Calenus his
physician, he could not eat, or drink a cup of wine,
but he was as red in the face as if he had been at
a mayor’s feast. That symptom alone vexeth
many. [2638]Some again are black, pale, ruddy, sometimes
their shoulders and shoulder blades ache, there is
a leaping all over their bodies, sudden trembling,
a palpitation of the heart, and that cardiaca passio,
grief in the mouth of the stomach, which maketh the
patient think his heart itself acheth, and sometimes
suffocation, difficultas anhelitus, short breath,
hard wind, strong pulse, swooning. Montanus consil.
55. Trincavelius lib. 3. consil. 36. et 37.
Fernelius cons. 43. Frambesarius consult.
lib. 1. consil. 17. Hildesheim, Claudinus, &c.,
give instance of every particular. The peculiar
symptoms which properly belong to each part be these.
If it proceed from the stomach, saith [2639]Savanarola,
’tis full of pain wind. Guianerius adds,
vertigo, nausea, much spitting, &c. If from the
mirach, a swelling and wind in the hypochondries,
a loathing, and appetite to vomit, pulling upward.
If from the heart, aching and trembling of it, much
heaviness. If from the liver, there is usually
a pain in the right hypochondry. If from the
spleen, hardness and grief in the left hypochondry,
a rumbling, much appetite and small digestion, Avicenna.
If from the mesaraic veins and liver on the other
side, little or no appetite, Herc. de Saxonia.
If from the hypochondries, a rumbling inflation, concoction