Aphorisms
- 7.74.1
In a fever which does not intermit, if a lip, the nose, or an eye be distorted, if the patient lose his sense of sight or of hearing, while now in a weak state,-whatever of these symptoms occurs it is mortal.
- 7.75.1
Upon leucophlegmatia dropsy supervenes.
- 7.76.1
Upon diarrhoea dysentery.
- 7.77.1
Upon dysentery lientery.
- 7.78.1
Upon sphacelus exfoliation of the bone.
- 7.79_80.1
Upon vomiting of blood consumption, and a purging of pus upward; upon consumption a defluxion from the head; upon a defluxion diarrhoea; upon diarrhoea a stoppage of the purging upward; upon the stoppage of it death.
- 7.81.1
In the discharges by the bladder, the belly, and the flesh (the skin?) if the body has departed slightly from its natural condition, the disease is slight; if much, it is great; if very much, it is mortal.
- 7.82.1
Persons above forty years of age who are affected with frenzy, do not readily recover; the danger is less when the disease is cognate to the constitution and age.
- 7.83.1
In whatever diseases the eyes weep voluntarily, it is a good symptom, but when involuntarily, it is a bad.
- 7.84.1
When in quartan fevers blood flows from the nostrils it is a bad symptom.
- 7.85.1
Sweats are dangerous when they do not occur on critical days, when they are strong, and quickly forced out of the forehead, either in the form of drops or in streams, and if excessively cold and copious; for such a sweat must proceed from violence, excess of pain, and prolonged squeezing (affliction?).
- 7.86.1
In a chronic disease an excessive flux from the bowels is bad.
- 7.87.1
Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron (the knife?) cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
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