Kitap 2
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9 Having recognized the indications which either console us with hope, or terrify us with fear, we must pass to the methods of treating Diseases. Of these some are general aids, some special. General Aids are those which are beneficial in most diseases, Special Aids in particular ones. I shall speak first of the general, some of which, however, sustain not alone the sick but also those in health; some are applied against illness only.
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Now every corporeal aid either diminishes substance or adds to it, either draws it out or represses it, either cools or warms, either hardens or softens; some act, not merely in one way, but even in two ways, not contrary the one to the other. Substance is withdrawn by blood-letting, cupping, purging, vomiting, rubbing, rocking, and by bodily exercises of all kinds, by abstinence, by sweating; of these I shall now speak.
