[p. 95]in autumn. The flesh of young pigs is bad, either
when it is too raw or when it is over-roasted, for it engenders bile
and disorders the bowels. Of all kinds of flesh, pork is the best;
it is best when neither very fat, nor, on the other hand, very lean,
and the animal had not attained the age of what is reckoned an old
victim; it should be eaten without the skin, and in a coldish state.
PART 19
In dry cholera the belly is distended with wind, there is rumbling
in the bowels, pain in the sides and loins, no dejections, but, on
the contrary, the bowels are constipated. In such a case you should
guard against vomiting, but endeavor to get the bowels opened. As
quickly as possible give a clyster of hot water with plenty of oil
in it, and having rubbed the patient freely with unguents; put him
into hot water, laying him down in the basin, and pouring the hot
water upon him by degrees; and if, when heated in the bath, the bowels
be moved, he will be freed from the complaint. To a person in such
a complaint it will do good if he sleep, and drink a thin, old, and
strong wine; and you should give him oil, so that he may settle, and
have his bowels moved, when he will be relieved. He must abstain from
all other kinds of food; but when the pain remits, give him asses
milk to drink until he is purged. But if the bowels are loose, with
bilious discharges, tormina, vomitings, a feeling of suffocation,
and gnawing pains, it is best to enjoin repose, and to drink hydromel,
and avoid vomiting.
PART 20
There are two kinds of dropsy, the one anasarca, which, when formed,
is incurable; the other is accompanied with emphysema (tympanites?)
and requires much good fortune to enable one to triumph over it. Laborious
exertion, fomentation, and abstinence (are to be enjoined). The patient
should eat dry and acrid things, for thus will he pass the more water,
and his strength be kept up. If he labors under difficulty of breathing,
if it is the summer season, and if he is in the prime of life, and
is strong, blood should be abstracted from the arm, and then he should
eat hot pieces of bread, dipped in dark wine and oil, drink very little,
and labor much, and live on well-fed pork, boiled with vinegar, so
that he may be able to endure hard exercises.
PART 21
Those who have the inferior intestines hot, and who pass
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