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Part 47
Persons who are benefited by venesection or purging, should be
bled or purged in spring.
Part 48
In enlargement of the spleen, it is a good symptom when dysentery
comes on.
Part 49
In gouty affections, the inflammation subsides in the course of
forty days.
Part 50
When the brain is severely wounded, fever and vomiting of bile
necessarily supervene.
Part 51
When persons in good health are suddenly seized with pains in
the head, and straightway are laid down speechless, and breathe with
stertor, they die in seven days, unless fever come on.
Part 52
We must attend to the appearances of the eyes in sleep, as presented
from below; for if a portion of the white be seen between the closed
eyelids, and if this be not connected with diarrhaea or severe purging,
it is a very bad and mortal symptom.
Part 53
Delirium attended with laughter is less dangerous than delirium
attended with a serious mood.
Part 54
In acute diseases, complicated with fever, a moaning respiration
is bad.
Part 55
For the most part, gouty affections rankle in spring and in autumn.
Part 56
In melancholic affections, determinations of the humor which occasions
them produce the following diseases; either apoplexy of the whole
body, or convulsion, or madness, or blindness.
Part 57
Persons are most subject to apoplexy between the ages of forty
and sixty.
Part 58
If the omentum protrude, it necessarily mortifies and drops off.
Part 59
In chronic diseases of the hip-joint, if the bone protrude and
return again into its socket, there is mucosity in the place.
Part 60
In persons affected with chronic disease of the hip-joint, if
the bone protrude from its socket, the limb becomes wasted and maimed,
unless the part be cauterized.
SECTION VII
Part 1
In acute diseases, coldness of the extremities is bad.
Part 2
Livid flesh on a diseased bone is bad.
