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If, suddenly, an attack of heat or pain affects a limb, it is the rheumatism which is seen to flow down to the parts from above. The humours from the brain, the lung, the spleen and liver flow out and pool remotely, and are especially damaging when they reach a gland or other organ down below.
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Du Port, F. (1988). Of Rheumatism. In: Diehl, H. (eds) The Decade of Medicine or The Physician of the Rich and the Poor. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73715-2_34
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