18
A severe wound of the bladder, of the brain, of the heart, of the diaphragm, of the small intestines, of the stomach, and of the liver, is deadly.
19
When a bone, cartilage, nerve, the slender part of the jaw, or prepuce, are cut out, the part is neither restored, nor does it unite.
20
If blood be poured out preternaturally into a cavity, it must necessarily become corrupted.
21
In maniacal affections, if varices or hemorrhoids come on, they remove the mania.
22
Those ruptures in the back which spread down to the elbows are removed by venesection.
23
If a fright or despondency lasts for a long time, it is a melancholic affection.
24
If any of the intestines be transfixed, it does not unite.
25
It is not a good sign for an erysipelas spreading outwardly to be determined inward; but for it to be determined outward from within is good.
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.
