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hot, or salt and hot, with numerous other combinations,
and cold again combines with other powers.
It is these things which cause the harm. Heat, too,
is present, but merely as a concomitant, having the
strength of the directing factor which is aggravated
and increases with the other factor, but having no
power greater than that which properly belongs
to it.
PART 18
XVIII. That this is so is plain if we consider the
following pieces of evidence. First we have the more
obvious symptoms, which all of us often experience
and will continue so to do. In the first place, those
of us who suffer from cold in the head, with discharge
from the nostrils, generally find this discharge more
acrid than that which previously formed there and
daily passed from the nostrils ; it makes the nose
swell, and inflames it to an extremely fiery heat, as
is shown if you put your hand upon it. | Or, with the MSS. reading, "And if you keep putting
your hand to it, and the catarrh last a long time," etc. |
And if the
disease be present for an unusually long time, the
part actually becomes ulcered, although it is without
flesh and hard. But in some way the heat of the
nostril ceases, not when the discharge takes place
and the inflammation is present, but when the
running becomes thicker and less acrid, being matured
and more mixed than it was before, then it is that
the heat finally ceases. But in cases where the evil
obviously comes from cold alone, unaccompanied by
anything else, there is always the same change, heat
following chill and chill heat, and these supervene
at once, and need no coction. In all other instances,
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