Aphorisms

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Part 14

In a case of dropsy, when the water runs by the veins into the belly, it removes the disease.

Part 15

In confirmed diarrhoea, vomiting, when it comes on spontaneously, removes the diarrhoea.

Part 16

A diarrhoea supervening in a confirmed case of pleurisy or pneumonia is bad.

Part 17

It is a good thing in ophthalmy for the patient to be seized with diarrhoea.

Part 18

A severe wound of the bladder, of the brain, of the heart, of the diaphragm, of the small intestines, of the stomach, and of the liver, is deadly.

Part 19

When a bone, cartilage, nerve, the slender part of the jaw, or prepuce, are cut out, the part is neither restored, nor does it unite.

Part 20

If blood be poured out preternaturally into a cavity, it must necessarily become corrupted.

Part 21

In maniacal affections, if varices or hemorrhoids come on, they remove the mania.

Part 22

Those ruptures in the back which spread down to the elbows are removed by venesection.

Part 23

If a fright or despondency lasts for a long time, it is a melancholic affection.

Part 24

If any of the intestines be transfixed, it does not unite.

Part 25

It is not a good sign for an erysipelas spreading outwardly to be determined inward; but for it to be determined outward from within is good.

Part26

In whatever cases of ardent fever tremors occur, they are carried off by a delirium.

Part 27

Those cases of empyema or dropsy which are treated by incision or the cautery, if the water or pus flow rapidly all at once, certainly prove fatal.

Part 28

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

Part 29

A woman does not take the gout, unless her menses be stopped.

Part 30

A young man does not take the gout until he indulges in coition.