[p. 316]disease is
turned upon the lungs, die in seven days; or if they pass these they
become affected with empyema.
Part 11
In persons affected with phthisis, if the sputa which they cough
up have a heavy smell when poured upon coals, and if the hairs of
the head fall off, the case will prove fatal.
Part 12
Phthisical persons, the hairs of whose head fall off, die if diarrhoea
set in.
Part 13
In persons who cough up frothy blood, the discharge of it comes
from the lungs.
Part 14
Diarrhoea attacking a person affected with phthisis is a mortal
symptom.
Part 15
Persons who become affected with empyema after pleurisy, if they
get clear of it in forty days from the breaking of it, escape the
disease; but if not, it passes into phthisis.
Part 16
Heat produces the following bad effects on those who use it frequently:
enervation of the fleshy parts, impotence of the nerves, torpor of
the understanding, hemorrhages, deliquia, and, along with these, death.
Part 17
Cold induces convulsions, tetanus, mortification, and febrile
rigors.
Part 18
Cold is inimical to the bones, the teeth, the nerves, the brain,
and the spinal marrow, but heat is beneficial.
Part 19
Such parts as have been congealed should be heated, except where
there either is a hemorrhage, or one is expected.
Part 20
Cold pinches ulcers, hardens the skin, occasions pain which does
not end in suppuration, blackens, produces febrile rigors, convulsions,
and tetanus.
Part 21
In the case of a muscular youth having tetanus without a wound,
during the midst of summer, it sometimes happens that the allusion
of a large quantity of cold water recalls the heat. Heat relieves
these diseases.
Part 22
Heat is suppurative, but not in all kinds of sores, but when it
is, it furnishes the greatest test of their being free from danger.
It softens the skin, makes it thin, removes pain, soothes rigor, convulsions,
and tetanus. It removes affections of the head, and heaviness of it.
It is particularly efficacious in fractures of the bones, especially
of those which have been exposed, and most