[p. 92] and face, extorted by the violent
pain of the parched and dried tendons of the sacral extremity (these
are very thick, sustaining the spine, and giving rise to very great
ligaments, which terminate in the feet,) in such a case, unless fever
and sleep come on, followed by concocted urine and critical sweats,
give to drink a strong Cretan wine, and boiled barley-meal for food;
anoint and rub with ointments containing wax; bathe the legs and feet
in hot water, and then cover them up; and so in like manner the arms,
as far as the hands, and the spine, from the neck to the sacrum, are
to be wrapped in a skin smeared with wax; this must extend to the
parts beyond, and intervals are to be left for applying fomentations,
by means of leather bottles filled with hot water, then, wrapping
him up in a linen cloth, lay him down in bed. Do not open the bowels,
unless by means of a suppository, when they have been long of being
moved. If there be any remission of the disease, so far well, but
otherwise, pound of the root of bryonia in fragrant wine, and that
of the carrot, and give to the patient fasting early in the morning,
before using the affusion, and immediately afterwards let him eat
boiled barley-meal in a tepid state, and as much as he can take, and
in addition let him drink, if he will, wine well diluted. If the disease
yield to these means, so much the better, but, if otherwise, you must
prognosticate accordingly.
PART 15
All diseases are resolved either by the mouth, the bowels, the bladder,
or some other such organ. Sweat is a common form of resolution in
all these cases.
PART 16
You should put persons on a course of hellebore who are troubled with
a defluxion from the head. But do not administer hellebore to such
persons as are laboring under empyema connected with abscesses, haemoptysis,
and intemperament, or any other strong cause, for it will do no good;
and if any thing unpleasant occur the hellebore will get the blame
of it. But if the body have suddenly lost its powers, or if there
be pain in the head, or obstruction of the ears and nose, or ptyalism,
or heaviness of the limbs, or an extraordinary swelling of the body,
you may administer the hellebore, provided these symptoms be not connected
with drinking, nor with immoderate venery; nor with
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