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of nature--that is to say, its tone--be dissolved, then this
affection is produced. The original of it is causus, which is in
this form.
CHAPTER IV. ON CAUSUS, OR ARDENT FEVER
HEAT, indeed, everywhere, both acrid and subtil, but especially
in the internal parts; respiration hot, as if from fire;
inhalation of air large; desire of cold; dryness of tongue;
parchedness of lips and skin; extremities cold; urine intensely
tinged with bile; insomnolency; pulse frequent, small, and
feeble; eyes clear, glancing, reddish; healthy colour of the
countenance.
But if the affection increase, all appearances become greater
and worse; the pulse very small and very frequent; heat very
dry and very acrid; intellect wavering; ignorance of all
things; they are thirsty; a desire to touch anything cold,
whether a wall, a garment, the floor, or a fluid; hands cold,
palms thereof very hot, nails livid; breathing thick; perspiration
like dew about the forehead and clavicles.
But if nature attain the extremity of dryness and of heat,
the hot is converted into cold, and the parched into humidity;
for extreme intensities of things change to the opposite state.
When, therefore, the bonds of life are dissolved, this is syncope.
Then is there an irrestrainable sweat over all the body;
respiration cold, much vapour about the nostrils; they have
no thirst, and yet the other parts are parched except the
organs of thirst, namely, the mouth and stomach; the urine
thin and watery; belly for the most part dry, yet in certain
cases the discharges are scanty and bilious; a redundancy of
