[p. 91]taken place, and his
system has cast off what is offensive, there will then be no objection.
The sputa are concocted when they resemble pus, and the urine when
it has reddish sediments like tares. But there is nothing to prevent
fomentations and cerates being applied for the other pains of the
sides; and the legs and loins may be rubbed with hot oil, or anointed
with fat; linseed, too, in the form of a cataplasm, may be applied
to the hypochondrium and as far up as the breasts. When pneumonia
is at its height, the case is beyond remedy if he is not purged, and
it is bad if he has dyspnoea, and urine that is thin and acrid, and
if sweats come out about the neck and head, for such sweats are bad,
as proceeding from the suffocation, rales, and the violence of the
disease which is obtaining the upper hand, unless there be a copious
evacuation of thick urine, and the sputa be concocted; when either
of these come on spontaneously, that will carry off the disease. A
linctus for pneumonia: Galbanum and pine-fruit in Attic honey; and
southernwood in oxymel; make a decoction of pepper and black hellebore,
and give it in cases of pleurisy attended with violent pain at the
commencement. It is also a good thing to boil opoponax in oxymel,
and, having strained it, to give it to drink; it answers well, also,
in diseases of the liver, and in severe pains proceeding from the
diaphragm, and in all cases in which it is beneficial to determine
to the bowels or urinary organs, when given in wine and honey; when
given to act upon the bowels, it should be drunk in larger quantity,
along with a watery hydromel.
PART 12
A dysentery, when stopped, will give rise to an aposteme, or tumor,
if it do not terminate in fevers with sweats, or with thick and white
urine, or in a tertian fever, or the pain fix upon a varix, or the
testicles, or on the hip-joints.
PART 13
In a bilious fever, jaundice coming on with rigor before the seventh
day carries off the fever, but if it occur without the fever, and
not at the proper time, it is a fatal symptom.
PART 14
When the loins are in a tetanic state, and the spirits in the veins
are obstructed by melancholic humors, venesection will afford relief.
But when, on the other hand, the anterior tendons are strongly contracted,
and if there be sweats about the neck
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