[p. 81] pain. It takes place
most commonly from a long walk and protracted thirst, when the veins
being dried up attract acrid and hot defluxions to themselves. The
tongue becomes rough, dry, and very black; there are gnawing pains
about the bowels; the alvine discharges are watery and yellow; there
is intense thirst, insomnolency, and sometimes wandering of the mind.
To a person in such a state give to drink water and as much boiled
hydromel of a watery consistence as he will take; and if the mouth
be bitter, it may be advantageous to administer an emetic and clyster;
and if these things do not loosen the bowels, purge with the boiled
milk of asses. Give nothing saltish nor acrid, for they will not be
borne; and give no draughts of ptisan until the crisis be past. And
the affection is resolved if there be an epistaxis, or if true critical
sweats supervene with urine having white, thick, and smooth sediments,
or if a deposit take place anywhere; but if it be resolved without
these, there will be a relapse of the complaint, or pain in the hips
and legs will ensue, with thick sputa, provided the patient be convalescent.
Another species of ardent fever: belly loose, much thirst, tongue
rough, dry, and saltish, retention of urine, insomnolency, extremities
cold. In such a case, unless there be a flow of blood from the nose,
or an abscess form about the neck, or pain in the limbs, or the patient
expectorate thick sputa (these occur when the belly is constipated),
or pain of the hips, or lividity of the genital organs, there is no
crisis; tension of the testicle is also a critical symptom. Give attractive
draughts.
PART 2
Bleed in the acute affections, if the disease appear strong, and the
patients be in the vigor of life, and if they have strength. If it
be quinsy or any other of the pleuritic affections, purge with electuaries;
but if the patient be weaker, or if you abstract more blood, you may
administer a clyster every third day, until he be out of danger, and
enjoin total abstinence if necessary.
PART 3
Hypochondria inflamed not from retention of flatus, tension of the
diaphragm, checked respiration, with dry orthopnoea, when no pus is
formed, but when these complaints are connected with obstructed respiration;
but more especially strong pains of the liver, heaviness of the spleen,
and other phlegmasiae and in-
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