8
We must be guarded in purging phthisical persons upward.
9
And from the same mode of reasoning, applying the opposite rule to melancholic persons, we must purge them freely downward.
10
In very acute diseases, if matters be in a state of orgasm, we may purge on the first day, for it is a bad thing to procrastinate in such cases.
11
Those cases in which there are tormina, pains about the umbilicus, and pains about the loins, not removed either by purgative medicines or otherwise, usually terminate in dry dropsy.
12
It is a bad thing to purge upward in winter persons whose bowels are in a state of lientery.
13
Persons who are not easily purged upward by the hellebores, should have their bodies moistened by plenty of food and rest before taking the draught.
14
When one takes a draught of hellebore, one should be made to move more about, and indulge less in sleep and repose. Sailing on the sea shows that motion disorders the body.
15
When you wish the hellebore to act more, move the body, and when to stop, let the patient get sleep and rest.
16
Hellebore is dangerous to persons whose flesh is sound, for it induces convulsion.
17
Anorexia, heartburn, vertigo, and a bitter taste of the mouth, in a person free from fever, indicate the want of purging upward.
18
Pains seated above the diaphragm indicate purging upward, and those below it, downward.
19
Persons who have no thirst while under the action of a purgative medicine, do not cease from being purged until they become thirsty.
