Kitap 2
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Whatever too the part of the body, any limb which becomes paralysed if it is not moved and wastes, will not be restored to its former state, and the less so the longer the paralysis has been, and the older the patient. And for the cure of all cases of paralysis, winter and autumn are not favourable seasons; there is possibly hope in spring and summer; even when mild this disease is scarcely curable, a severe attack cannot be cured.
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All pain also becomes less amenable to treatment as it spreads upwards.
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In a pregnant woman, if the breasts suddenly shrivel up, there is danger of abortion. A woman has a defective menstruation who has milk in her breasts, not having just borne a child, or being pregnant.
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Quartan fever, whilst brief in summer, is generally prolonged in autumn, and especially so when beginning at the approach of winter. There is danger of death if haemorrhage is followed by dementia and by spasm; the same is the case when, after purgation by medicaments, and, with the bowel still empty, there is an attack of spasm, as also if with great pain in the bowel the extremities become cold.
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He does not return to life who has been taken down from hanging with foam around the mouth.
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A black stool resembling black blood, passed suddenly, whether accompanied by fever, or even without fever, is dangerous.
