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Part 31
Pains of the eyes are removed by drinking pure wine, or the bath,
or a fomentation, or venesection, or purging.
Part 32
Persons whose speech has become impaired are likely to be seized
with chronic diarrhoea.
Part 33
Persons having acid eructations are not very apt to be seized
with pleurisy.
Part 34
Persons who have become bald are not subject to large varices;
but should varices supervene upon persons who are bald, their hair
again grows thick.
Part 35
Hiccup supervening in dropsical cases is bad.
Part 36
Venesection cures dysuria; open the internal veins of the arm.
Part 37
It is a good symptom when swelling on the outside of the neck
seizes a person very ill of quinsy, for the disease is turned outwardly.
Part 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.
Part 39
Convulsions take place either from repletion or depletion; and
so it is with hiccup.
Part 40
When pains, without inflammation, occur about the hypochondria,
in such cases, fever supervening removes the pain.
Part 41
When pus formed anywhere in the body does not point, this is owing
to the thickness of the part.
Part 42
In cases of jaundice, it is a bad symptom when the liver becomes
indurated.
Part 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.
Part 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.
Part 45
When ulcers continue open for a year or upward, there must necessarily
be exfoliation of bone, and the cicatrices are hollow.
Part 46
Such persons as become hump-backed from asthma or cough before
puberty, die.