3
A convulsion, or hiccup, supervening on a copious discharge of blood is bad.
4
A convulsion, or hiccup, supervening upon hypercatharsis is bad.
5
If a drunken person suddenly lose his speech, he will die convulsed, unless fever come on, or he recover his speech at the time when the consequences of a debauch pass off.
6
Such persons as are seized with tetanus die within four days, or if they pass these they recover.
7
Those cases of epilepsy which come on before puberty may undergo a change; but those which come on after twenty-five years of age, for the most part terminate in death.
8
In pleuritic affections, when the disease is not purged off in fourteen days, it usually terminates in empyema.
9
Phthisis most commonly occurs between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five years.
10
Persons who escape an attack of quinsy, and when the disease is turned upon the lungs, die in seven days; or if they pass these they become affected with empyema.
11
In persons affected with phthisis, if the sputa which they cough up have a heavy smell when poured upon coals, and if the hairs of the head fall off, the case will prove fatal.
12
Phthisical persons, the hairs of whose head fall off, die if diarrhoea set in.
13
In persons who cough up frothy blood, the discharge of it comes from the lungs.
14
Diarrhoea attacking a person affected with phthisis is a mortal symptom.
