20
When things are at the crisis, or when they have just passed it, neither move the bowels, nor make any innovation in the treatment, either as regards purgatives or any other such stimulants, but let things alone.
21
Those things which require to be evacuated should be evacuated, wherever they most tend, by the proper outlets.
22
We must purge and move such humors as are concocted, not such as are unconcocted, unless they are struggling to get out, which is mostly not the case.
23
The evacuations are to be judged of not by their quantity, but whether they be such as they should be, and how they are borne. And when proper to carry the evacuation to deliquium animi, this also should be done, provided the patient can support it.
24
Use purgative medicines sparingly in acute diseases, and at the commencement, and not without proper circumspection.
25
If the matters which are purged be such as should be purged, the evacuation is beneficial, and easily borne; but, not withstanding, if otherwise, with difficulty.
SECTION II
1
In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.
2
When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.
3
Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.
4
Neither repletion, nor fasting, nor anything else, is good when more than natural.
5
Spontaneous lassitude indicates disease.
6
Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.
7
Those bodies which have been slowly emaciated should be slowly recruited; and those which have been quickly emaciated should be quickly recruited.
8
When a person after a disease takes food, but does not improve in strength, it indicates that the body uses more food than is proper; but if this happen when he does not take food, it is to be understood evacuation is required.
9
When one wishes to purge, he should put the body into a fluent state.
10
Bodies not properly cleansed, the more you nourish the more you injure.
