Aphorisms   

change to another while the original appearances remain.

53. Those persons who have watery discharges from the bowels when
they are young, come off better than those who have dry; but in old
age they come off worse, for the bowels in aged persons are usually
dried up.

54. Largeness of person in youth is noble and not unbecoming; but in
old age it is inconvenient, and worse than a smaller structure.


SECTION III.

1. The changes of the season mostly engender diseases, and in the
seasons great changes either of heat or of cold, and the rest
agreeably to the same rule.

2. Of natures (temperaments?), some are well- or ill-adapted for
summer, and some for winter.

3. Of diseases and ages, certain of them are well- or ill-adapted to
different seasons, places, and kinds of diet.

4. In the seasons, when during the same day there is at one time
heat and at another time cold, the diseases of autumn may be expected.

5. South winds induce dullness of hearing, dimness of visions,
heaviness of the head, torpor, and languor; when these prevail, such
symptoms occur in diseases. But if the north wind prevail, coughs,
affections of the throat, hardness of the bowels, dysuria attended
with rigors, and pains of the sides and breast occur. When this wind
prevails, all such symptoms may be expected in diseases.

6. When summer is like spring, much sweating may be expected in
fevers.

7. Acute diseases occur in droughts; and if the summer be
particularly such, according to the constitution which it has given to
the year, for the most part such diseases maybe expected.

8. In seasons which are regular, and furnish the productions of
the season at the seasonable time, the diseases are regular, and
come readily to a crisis; but in inconstant seasons, the diseases
are irregular, and come to a crisis with difficulty.

9. In autumn, diseases are most acute, and most mortal, on the
whole. The spring is most healthy, and least mortal.

10. Autumn is a bad season for persons in consumption.

11. With regard to the seasons, if the winter be of a dry and
northerly character, and the spring rainy and southerly, in summer
there will necessarily be acute fevers, ophthalmies, and
dysenteries, especially in women, and in men of a humid temperament.

12. If the but the spring dry and northerly, women whose term of
delivery should be in spring, have abortions from any slight cause;
and those who reach their full time, bring forth children who are
feeble, and diseased, so that they either die presently, or, if they
live, are puny and unhealthy. Other people are subject to
dysenteries and ophthalmies, and old men to catarrhs, which quickly
cut them off.

13. If the summer be dry and northerly and the autumn rainy and