SECTION VI
Part 1
In cases of chronic lientery, acid eructations supervening when
there were none previously, is a good symptom.
Part 2
Persons whose noses are naturally watery, and their seed watery,
have rather a deranged state of health; but those in the opposite
state, a more favorable.
Part 3
In protracted cases of dysentery, loathing of food is a bad symptom,
and still worse, if along with fever.
Part 4
Ulcers, attended with a falling off of the hair, are mali moris.
Part 5
It deserves to be considered whether the pains in the sides, and
in the breasts, and in the other parts, differ much from one another.
Part 6
Diseases about the kidneys and bladder are cured with difficulty
in old men.
Part 7
Pains occurring about the stomach, the more superficial they are,
the more slight are they; and the less superficial, the more severe.
Part 8
In dropsical persons, ulcers forming on the body are not easily
healed.
Part 9
Broad exanthemata are not very itchy.
Part 10
In a person having a painful spot in the head, with intense cephalalgia,
pus or water running from the nose, or by the mouth, or at the ears,
removes the disease.
Part 11
Hemorrhoids appearing in melancholic and nephritic affections
are favorable.
Part 12
When a person has been cured of chronic hemorrhoids, unless one
be left, there is danger of dropsy or phthisis supervening.
Part 13
Sneezing coming on, in the case of a person afflicted with hiccup,
removes the hiccup.
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Part 14
In a case of dropsy, when the water runs by the veins into the
belly, it removes the disease.
Part 15
In confirmed diarrhoea, vomiting, when it comes on spontaneously,
removes the diarrhoea.
Part 16
A diarrhoea supervening in a confirmed case of pleurisy or pneumonia
is bad.
Part 17
It is a good thing in ophthalmy for the patient to be seized with
diarrhoea.
Part 18
A severe wound of the bladder, of the brain, of the heart, of
the diaphragm, of the small intestines, of the stomach, and of the
liver, is deadly.
Part 19
When a bone, cartilage, nerve, the slender part of the jaw, or
prepuce, are cut out, the part is neither restored, nor does it unite.
Part 20
If blood be poured out preternaturally into a cavity, it must
necessarily become corrupted.
Part 21
In maniacal affections, if varices or hemorrhoids come on, they
remove the mania.
Part 22
Those ruptures in the back which spread down to the elbows are
removed by venesection.
Part 23
If a fright or despondency lasts for a long time, it is a melancholic
affection.
Part 24
If any of the intestines be transfixed, it does not unite.
Part 25
It is not a good sign for an erysipelas spreading outwardly to
be determined inward; but for it to be determined outward from within
is good.
Part26
In whatever cases of ardent fever tremors occur, they are carried
off by a delirium.
Part 27
Those cases of empyema or dropsy which are treated by incision
or the cautery, if the water or pus flow rapidly all at once, certainly
prove fatal.
Part 28
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
Part 29
A woman does not take the gout, unless her menses be stopped.
Part 30
A young man does not take the gout until he indulges in coition.
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Part 31
Pains of the eyes are removed by drinking pure wine, or the bath,
or a fomentation, or venesection, or purging.
Part 32
Persons whose speech has become impaired are likely to be seized
with chronic diarrhoea.
Part 33
Persons having acid eructations are not very apt to be seized
with pleurisy.
Part 34
Persons who have become bald are not subject to large varices;
but should varices supervene upon persons who are bald, their hair
again grows thick.
Part 35
Hiccup supervening in dropsical cases is bad.
Part 36
Venesection cures dysuria; open the internal veins of the arm.
Part 37
It is a good symptom when swelling on the outside of the neck
seizes a person very ill of quinsy, for the disease is turned outwardly.
Part 38
It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer;
for, if treated, the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they
hold out for a long time.
Part 39
Convulsions take place either from repletion or depletion; and
so it is with hiccup.
Part 40
When pains, without inflammation, occur about the hypochondria,
in such cases, fever supervening removes the pain.
Part 41
When pus formed anywhere in the body does not point, this is owing
to the thickness of the part.
Part 42
In cases of jaundice, it is a bad symptom when the liver becomes
indurated.
Part 43
When persons having large spleens are seized with dysentery, and
if the dysentery pass into a chronic state, either dropsy or lientery
supervenes, and they die.
Part 44
When ileus comes on in a case of strangury, they prove fatal in
seven days, unless, fever supervening, there be a copious discharge
of urine.
Part 45
When ulcers continue open for a year or upward, there must necessarily
be exfoliation of bone, and the cicatrices are hollow.
Part 46
Such persons as become hump-backed from asthma or cough before
puberty, die.
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Part 47
Persons who are benefited by venesection or purging, should be
bled or purged in spring.
Part 48
In enlargement of the spleen, it is a good symptom when dysentery
comes on.
Part 49
In gouty affections, the inflammation subsides in the course of
forty days.
Part 50
When the brain is severely wounded, fever and vomiting of bile
necessarily supervene.
Part 51
When persons in good health are suddenly seized with pains in
the head, and straightway are laid down speechless, and breathe with
stertor, they die in seven days, unless fever come on.
Part 52
We must attend to the appearances of the eyes in sleep, as presented
from below; for if a portion of the white be seen between the closed
eyelids, and if this be not connected with diarrhaea or severe purging,
it is a very bad and mortal symptom.
Part 53
Delirium attended with laughter is less dangerous than delirium
attended with a serious mood.
Part 54
In acute diseases, complicated with fever, a moaning respiration
is bad.
Part 55
For the most part, gouty affections rankle in spring and in autumn.
Part 56
In melancholic affections, determinations of the humor which occasions
them produce the following diseases; either apoplexy of the whole
body, or convulsion, or madness, or blindness.
Part 57
Persons are most subject to apoplexy between the ages of forty
and sixty.
Part 58
If the omentum protrude, it necessarily mortifies and drops off.
Part 59
In chronic diseases of the hip-joint, if the bone protrude and
return again into its socket, there is mucosity in the place.
Part 60
In persons affected with chronic disease of the hip-joint, if
the bone protrude from its socket, the limb becomes wasted and maimed,
unless the part be cauterized.
