23
Cold water is to be applied in the following cases; when there is a hemorrhage, or when it is expected, but not applied to the spot, but around the spot whence the blood flows; and in inflammations and inflammatory affections, inclining to a red and subsaguineous color, and consisting of fresh blood, in these cases it is to be applied but it occasions mortification in old cases; and in erysipelas not attended with ulceration, as it proves injurious to erysipelas when ulcerated.
24
Cold things, such as snow and ice, are inimical to the chest, being provocative of coughs, of discharges of blood, and of catarrhs.
25
Swellings and pains in the joints, ulceration, those of a gouty nature, and sprains, are generally improved by a copious affusion of cold water, which reduces the swelling, and removes the pain; for a moderate degree of numbness removes pain.
26
The lightest water is that which is quickly heated and quickly cooled.
27
When persons have intense thirst, it is a good thing if they can sleep off the desire of drinking.
28
Fumigation with aromatics promotes menstruation, and would be useful in many other cases, if it did not occasion heaviness of the head.
29
Women in a state of pregnancy may be purged, if there be any urgent necessity (or, if the humors be in a state of orgasm?), from the fourth to the seventh month, but less so in the latter case. In the first and last periods it must be avoided.
30
It proves fatal to a woman in a state of pregnancy, if she be seized with any of the acute diseases.
31
If a woman with child be bled, she will have an abortion, and this will be the more likely to happen, the larger the foetus.
32
Haemoptysis in a woman is removed by an eruption of the menses.
33
In a woman when there is a stoppage the menses, a discharge of blood from the nose is good.
34
When a pregnant woman has a violent diarrhoea, there is danger of her miscarrying.
35
Sneezing occurring to a woman affected with hysterics, and in difficult labor, is a good symptom.
