50
Those things which one has been accustomed to for a long time, although worse than things which one is not accustomed to, usually give less disturbance; but a change must sometimes be made to things one is not accustomed to.
51
To evacuate, fill up, heat, cool, or otherwise, move the body in any way much and suddenly, is dangerous; and whatever is excessive is inimical to nature; but whatever is done by little and little is safe, more especially when a transition is made from one thing to another.
52
When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.
53
Those persons who have watery discharges from the bowels when they are young, come off better than those who have dry; but in old age they come off worse, for the bowels in aged persons are usually dried up.
54
Largeness of person in youth is noble and not unbecoming; but in old age it is inconvenient, and worse than a smaller structure.
SECTION III
1
The changes of the season mostly engender diseases, and in the seasons great changes either of heat or of cold, and the rest agreeably to the same rule.
2
Of natures (temperaments?), some are well- or ill-adapted for summer, and some for winter.
3
Of diseases and ages, certain of them are well- or ill-adapted to different seasons, places, and kinds of diet.
