8
When a person after a disease takes food, but does not improve in strength, it indicates that the body uses more food than is proper; but if this happen when he does not take food, it is to be understood evacuation is required.
9
When one wishes to purge, he should put the body into a fluent state.
10
Bodies not properly cleansed, the more you nourish the more you injure.
11
It is easier to fill up with drink than with food.
12
What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.
13
Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preced-ing the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.
14
In fluxes of the bowels, a change of the dejections does good, unless the change be of a bad character.
15
When the throat is diseased, or tubercles (phymata) form on the body, attention must paid to the secretions; for if they be bilious, the disease affects the general system; but if they resemble those of a healthy person, it is safe to give nourishing food.
16
When in a state of hunger, one ought not to undertake labor.
17
When more food than is proper has been taken, it occasions disease; this is shown by the treatment.
18
From food which proves nourishing to the body either immediately or shortly, the dejections also are immediate.
19
In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery.
