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PART 10
If, in a winter fever, the tongue be rough, and if there be swoonings,
it is likely to be the remission of the fever. Nevertheless such a
person is to be kept upon a restricted diet, with water for drink,
and hydromel, and the strained juices, not trusting to the remission
of the fevers, as persons having these symptoms are in danger of dying;
when, therefore, you perceive these symptoms, announce this prognostic,
if you shall judge proper, after making the suitable observations.
When, in fevers, any dangerous symptom appears on the fifth day, when
watery discharges suddenly take place from the bowels, when deliquium
animi occurs, or the patient is attacked with loss of speech, convulsions,
or hiccup, under such circumstances he is likely to be affected with
nausea, and sweats break out under the nose and forehead, or on the
back part of the neck and head, and patients with such symptoms shortly
die, from stoppage of the respiration. When, in fevers, abscesses
form about the legs, and, getting into a chronic state, are not concocted
while the fever persists, and if one is seized with a sense of suffocation
in the throat, while the fauces are not swelled, and if it do not
come to maturation, but is repressed, in such a case there is apt
to be a flow of blood from the nose; if this, then, be copious, it
indicates a resolution of the disease, but if not, a prolongation
of the complaint; and the less the discharge, so much worse the symptoms,
and the more protracted the disease; but if the other symptoms are
very favorable, expect in such a case that pains will fall upon the
feet; if then they attack the feet, and if these continue long in
a very painful, and inflamed state, and if there be no resolution,
the pains will extend by degrees to the neck, to the clavicle, shoulder,
breast, or to some articulation, in which an inflammatory tumor will
necessarily form. When these are reduced, if the hands are contracted,
and become trembling, convulsion and delirium seize such a person;
but blisters break out on the eyebrow, erythema takes place, the one
eyelid being tumefied overtops the other, a hard inflammation sets
in, the eye become strongly swelled, and the delirium increases much,
but makes its attacks rather at night than by day. These symptoms
more frequently occur on odd than on even
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