Aphorisms   

southerly, headaches occur in winter, with coughs, hoarsenesses,
coryzae, and in some cases consumptions.

14. But if the autumn be northerly and dry, it agrees well with
persons of a humid temperament, and with women; but others will be
subject to dry ophthalmies, acute fevers, coryzae, and in some cases
melancholy.

15. Of the constitutions of the year, the dry, upon the whole, are
more healthy than the rainy, and attended with less mortality.

16. The diseases which occur most frequently in rainy seasons are,
protracted fevers, fluxes of the bowels, mortifications, epilepsies,
apoplexies, and quinsies; and in dry, consumptive diseases,
ophthalmies, arthritic diseases, stranguries, and dysenteries.

17. With regard to the states of the weather which continue but
for a day, that which is northerly, braces the body, giving it tone,
agility, and color, improves the sense of hearing, dries up the
bowels, pinches the eyes, and aggravates any previous pain which may
have been seated in the chest. But the southerly relaxes the body, and
renders it humid, brings on dullness of hearing, heaviness of the
head, and vertigo, impairs the movements of the eyes and the whole
body, and renders the alvine discharges watery.

18. With regard to the seasons, in spring and in the commencement of
summer, children and those next to them in age are most comfortable,
and enjoy best health; in summer and during a certain portion of
autumn, old people; during the remainder of the autumn and in
winter, those of the intermediate ages.

19. All diseases occur at all seasons of the year, but certain of
them are more apt to occur and be exacerbated at certain seasons.

20. The diseases of spring are, maniacal, melancholic, and epileptic
disorders, bloody flux, quinsy, coryza, hoarseness, cough, leprosy,
lichen alphos, exanthemata mostly ending in ulcerations, tubercles,
and arthritic diseases.

21. Of summer, certain of these, and continued, ardent, and
tertian fevers, most especially vomiting, diarrhoea, ophthalmy,
pains of the ears, ulcerations of the mouth, mortifications of the
privy parts, and the sudamina.

22. Of autumn, most of the summer, quartan, and irregular fevers,
enlarged spleen, dropsy, phthisis, strangury, lientery, dysentery,
sciatica, quinsy, asthma, ileus, epilepsy, maniacal and melancholic
disorders.

23. Of winter, pleurisy, pneumonia, coryza, hoarseness, cough, pains
of the chest, pains of the ribs and loins, headache, vertigo, and
apoplexy.

24. In the different ages the following complaints occur: to
little and new-born children, aphthae, vomiting, coughs,
sleeplessness, frights inflammation of the navel, watery discharges
from the ears.

25. At the approach of dentition, pruritus of the gums, fevers,
convulsions, diarrhoea, especially when cutting the canine teeth,
and in those who are particularly fat, and have constipated bowels.

26. To persons somewhat older, affections of the tonsils,
incurvation of the spine at the vertebra next the occiput, asthma,