[p. 134] and cold
sweats throughout; great coldness, from which they had great difficulty
in being restored to heat; the bowels variously constipated, and again
immediately in a loose state, but towards the termination in all cases
with violent looseness of the bowels; a determination downwards of
all matters collected about the lungs; urine excessive, and not good;
troublesome melting. The coughs throughout were frequent, and copious,
digested, and liquid, but not brought up with much pain; and even
when they had some slight pain, in all cases the purging of the matters
about the lungs went on mildly. The fauces were not very irritable,
nor were they troubled with any saltish humors; but there were viscid,
white, liquid, frothy, and copious defluxions from the head. But by
far the greatest mischief attending these and the other complaints,
was the aversion to food, as has been described. For neither been
described. For neither had they any relish for drink along with their
food, but continued without thirst. There was heaviness of the body,
disposition to coma, in most cases swelling, which ended in dropsy;
they had rigors, and were delirious towards death.
Part 14
The form of body peculiarly subject to phthisical complaints was
the smooth, the whitish, that resembling the lentil; the reddish,
the blue-eyed, the leucophlegmatic, and that with the scapulae having
the appearance of wings: and women in like manner, with regard to
the melancholic and subsanguineous, phrenitic and dysenteric affections
principally attacked them. Tenesmus troubled young persons of a phlegmatic
temperament. Chronic diarrhoea, acrid and viscid discharges from the
bowels, attacked those who were troubled with bitter bile.
Part 15
To all those which have been described, the season of spring was
most inimical, and proved fatal to the greatest numbers: the summer
was the most favorable to them, and the fewest died then; in autumn,
and under the Pleiades, again there died great numbers. It appears
to me, according to the reason of things, that the coming on of summer
should have done good in these cases; for winter coming on cures the
diseases of summer, and summer coming on removes the diseases of winter.
And yet the summer in question was not of itself well constituted,
for
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