Aphorisms   

21. In the case of a muscular youth having tetanus without a
wound, during the midst of summer, it sometimes happens that the
allusion of a large quantity of cold water recalls the heat. Heat
relieves these diseases.

22. Heat is suppurative, but not in all kinds of sores, but when
it is, it furnishes the greatest test of their being free from danger.
It softens the skin, makes it thin, removes pain, soothes rigor,
convulsions, and tetanus. It removes affections of the head, and
heaviness of it. It is particularly efficacious in fractures of the
bones, especially of those which have been exposed, and most
especially in wounds of the head, and in mortifications and ulcers
from cold; in herpes exedens, of the anus, the privy parts, the
womb, the bladder, in all these cases heat is agreeable, and brings
matters to a crisis; but cold is prejudicial, and does mischief.

23. Cold water is to be applied in the following cases; when there
is a hemorrhage, or when it is expected, but not applied to the
spot, but around the spot whence the blood flows; and in inflammations
and inflammatory affections, inclining to a red and subsaguineous
color, and consisting of fresh blood, in these cases it is to be
applied but it occasions mortification in old cases; and in erysipelas
not attended with ulceration, as it proves injurious to erysipelas
when ulcerated.

24. Cold things, such as snow and ice, are inimical to the chest,
being provocative of coughs, of discharges of blood, and of catarrhs.

25. Swellings and pains in the joints, ulceration, those of a
gouty nature, and sprains, are generally improved by a copious
affusion of cold water, which reduces the swelling, and removes the
pain; for a moderate degree of numbness removes pain.

26. The lightest water is that which is quickly heated and quickly
cooled.

27. When persons have intense thirst, it is a good thing if they can
sleep off the desire of drinking.

28. Fumigation with aromatics promotes menstruation, and would be
useful in many other cases, if it did not occasion heaviness of the
head.

29. Women in a state of pregnancy may be purged, if there be any
urgent necessity (or, if the humors be in a state of orgasm?), from
the fourth to the seventh month, but less so in the latter case. In
the first and last periods it must be avoided.

30. It proves fatal to a woman in a state of pregnancy, if she be
seized with any of the acute diseases.

31. If a woman with child be bled, she will have an abortion, and
this will be the more likely to happen, the larger the foetus.

32. Haemoptysis in a woman is removed by an eruption of the menses.

33. In a woman when there is a stoppage the menses, a discharge of
blood from the nose is good.

34. When a pregnant woman has a violent diarrhoea, there is danger
of her miscarrying.

35. Sneezing occurring to a woman affected with hysterics, and in
difficult labor, is a good symptom.