55
When the liver is filled with water and bursts into the epiploon, in this case the belly is filled with water and the patient dies.
56
Anxiety, yawning, rigor,-wine drunk with an equal proportion of water, removes these complaints.
57
When tubercles (phymata) form in the urethra, if they suppurate and burst, the pain is carried off.
58
In cases of concussion of the brain produced by any cause, the patients necessarily lose their speech.
59
In a person affected with fever, when there is no swelling in the fauces, should suffocation suddenly come on, and the patient not be able to swallow, except with difficulty, it is a mortal symptom.
59a
In the case of a person oppressed by fever, if the neck be turned aside, and the patient cannot swallow, while there is no swelling in the neck, it is a mortal sign.
60
Fasting should be prescribed the those persons who have humid flesh; for fasting dries bodies.
61
When there are changes in the whole body, and the body becomes sometimes cold and sometimes hot, and the color changes, a protracted disease is indicated.
62
A copious sweat, hot or cold, constantly flowing, indicates a superabundance of humidity; we must evacuate then, in a strong person upward, and in a weak, downward.
63
Fevers, not of the intermittent type, if they become exacerbated every third day are dangerous; but if they intermit in any form whatever, this shows that they are not dangerous.
64
In cases of protracted fever, either chronic abscesses or pains in the joints come on.
65
When chronic abscesses (phymata) or pains in the joints take place after fevers, the patients are using too much food.
66
If one give to a person in fever the same food which is given to a person in good health, what is strength to the one is disease to the other.
67
We must look to the urinary evacuations, whether they resemble those of persons in health; if not at all so, they are particularly morbid, but if they are like those of healthy persons, they are not at all morbid.
