26
In whatever cases of ardent fever tremors occur, they are carried off by a delirium.
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.
28
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
29
A woman does not take the gout, unless her menses be stopped.
30
A young man does not take the gout until he indulges in coition.
31
Pains of the eyes are removed by drinking pure wine, or the bath, or a fomentation, or venesection, or purging.
32
Persons whose speech has become impaired are likely to be seized with chronic diarrhoea.
33
Persons having acid eructations are not very apt to be seized with pleurisy.
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.
35
Hiccup supervening in dropsical cases is bad.
36
Venesection cures dysuria; open the internal veins of the arm.
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.
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.
39
Convulsions take place either from repletion or depletion; and so it is with hiccup.
40
When pains, without inflammation, occur about the hypochondria, in such cases, fever supervening removes the pain.
