10
In very acute diseases, if matters be in a state of orgasm, we may purge on the first day, for it is a bad thing to procrastinate in such cases.
11
Those cases in which there are tormina, pains about the umbilicus, and pains about the loins, not removed either by purgative medicines or otherwise, usually terminate in dry dropsy.
12
It is a bad thing to purge upward in winter persons whose bowels are in a state of lientery.
13
Persons who are not easily purged upward by the hellebores, should have their bodies moistened by plenty of food and rest before taking the draught.
14
When one takes a draught of hellebore, one should be made to move more about, and indulge less in sleep and repose. Sailing on the sea shows that motion disorders the body.
15
When you wish the hellebore to act more, move the body, and when to stop, let the patient get sleep and rest.
16
Hellebore is dangerous to persons whose flesh is sound, for it induces convulsion.
17
Anorexia, heartburn, vertigo, and a bitter taste of the mouth, in a person free from fever, indicate the want of purging upward.
18
Pains seated above the diaphragm indicate purging upward, and those below it, downward.
19
Persons who have no thirst while under the action of a purgative medicine, do not cease from being purged until they become thirsty.
20
If persons free from fever be seized with tormina, heaviness of the knees, and pains of the loins, this indicates that purging downward is required.
21
Alvine dejections which are black, like blood, taking place spontaneously, either with or without fever, are very bad; and the more numerous and unfavorable the colors, so much the worse; when with medicine it is better, and a variety of colors in this case is not bad.
22
When black bile is evacuated in the beginning of any disease whatever, either upward or downward, it is a mortal symptom.
