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İngilizce Yunanca

82 Persons above forty years of age who are affected with frenzy, do not readily recover; the danger is less when the disease is cognate to the constitution and age.

83 In whatever diseases the eyes weep voluntarily, it is a good symptom, but when involuntarily, it is a bad.

84 When in quartan fevers blood flows from the nostrils it is a bad symptom.

85 Sweats are dangerous when they do not occur on critical days, when they are strong, and quickly forced out of the forehead, either in the form of drops or in streams, and if excessively cold and copious; for such a sweat must proceed from violence, excess of pain, and prolonged squeezing (affliction?).

86 In a chronic disease an excessive flux from the bowels is bad.

87 Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron (the knife?) cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.