Aphorisms   

18. From food which proves nourishing to the body either immediately
or shortly, the dejections also are immediate.

19. In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either
death or recovery.

20. Those who have watery discharges from their bowels when young
have dry when they are old; and those who have dry discharges when
they are young will have watery when they are old.

21. Drinking strong wine cures hunger.

22. Diseases which arise from repletion are cured by depletion;
and those that arise from depletion are cured by repletion; and in
general, diseases are cured by their contraries.

23. Acute disease come to a crisis in fourteen days.

24. The fourth day is indicative of the seventh; the eighth is the
commencement of the second week; and hence, the eleventh being the
fourth of the second week, is also indicative; and again, the
seventeenth is indicative, as being the fourth from the fourteenth,
and the seventh from the eleventh.

25. The summer quartans are, for the most part, of short duration;
but the autumnal are protracted, especially those occurring near the
approach of winter.

26. It is better that a fever succeed to a convulsion, than a
convulsion to a fever.

27. We should not trust ameliorations in diseases when they are
not regular, nor be much afraid of bad symptoms which occur in an
irregular form; for such are commonly inconstant, and do not usually
continue, nor have any duration.

28. In fevers which are not altogether slight, it is a bad symptom
for the body to remain without any diminution of bulk, or to be wasted
beyond measure; for the one state indicates a protracted disease,
and the other weakness of body.

29. If it appear that evacuations are required, they should be
made at the commencement of diseases; at the acme it is better to be
quiet.

30. Toward the commencement and end of diseases all the symptoms are
weaker, and toward the acme they are stronger.

31. When a person who is recovering from a disease has a good
appetite, but his body does not improve in condition, it is a bad
symptom.

32. For the most part, all persons in ill health, who have a good
appetite at the commencement, but do not improve, have a bad
appetite again toward the end; whereas, those who have a very bad
appetite at the commencement, and afterward acquire a good appetite,
get better off.

33. In every disease it is a good sign when the patient's
intellect is sound, and he is disposed to take whatever food is
offered to him; but the contrary is bad.

34. In diseases, there is less danger when the disease is one to