38
It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for, if treated, the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
39
Convulsions take place either from repletion or depletion; and so it is with hiccup.
40
When pains, without inflammation, occur about the hypochondria, in such cases, fever supervening removes the pain.
41
When pus formed anywhere in the body does not point, this is owing to the thickness of the part.
42
In cases of jaundice, it is a bad symptom when the liver becomes indurated.
43
When persons having large spleens are seized with dysentery, and if the dysentery pass into a chronic state, either dropsy or lientery supervenes, and they die.
44
When ileus comes on in a case of strangury, they prove fatal in seven days, unless, fever supervening, there be a copious discharge of urine.
45
When ulcers continue open for a year or upward, there must necessarily be exfoliation of bone, and the cicatrices are hollow.
46
Such persons as become hump-backed from asthma or cough before puberty, die.
47
Persons who are benefited by venesection or purging, should be bled or purged in spring.
48
In enlargement of the spleen, it is a good symptom when dysentery comes on.
49
In gouty affections, the inflammation subsides in the course of forty days.
50
When the brain is severely wounded, fever and vomiting of bile necessarily supervene.
51
When persons in good health are suddenly seized with pains in the head, and straightway are laid down speechless, and breathe with stertor, they die in seven days, unless fever come on.
52
We must attend to the appearances of the eyes in sleep, as presented from below; for if a portion of the white be seen between the closed eyelids, and if this be not connected with diarrhaea or severe purging, it is a very bad and mortal symptom.
53
Delirium attended with laughter is less dangerous than delirium attended with a serious mood.
54
In acute diseases, complicated with fever, a moaning respiration is bad.
