Aphorisms   

spontaneously, removes the diarrhoea.

16. A diarrhoea supervening in a confirmed case of pleurisy or
pneumonia is bad.

17. It is a good thing in ophthalmy for the patient to be seized
with diarrhoea.

18. A severe wound of the bladder, of the brain, of the heart, of
the diaphragm, of the small intestines, of the stomach, and of the
liver, is deadly.

19. When a bone, cartilage, nerve, the slender part of the jaw, or
prepuce, are cut out, the part is neither restored, nor does it unite.

20. If blood be poured out preternaturally into a cavity, it must
necessarily become corrupted.

21. In maniacal affections, if varices or hemorrhoids come on,
they remove the mania.

22. Those ruptures in the back which spread down to the elbows are
removed by venesection.

23. If a fright or despondency lasts for a long time, it is a
melancholic affection.

24. If any of the intestines be transfixed, it does not unite.

25. It is not a good sign for an erysipelas spreading outwardly to
be determined inward; but for it to be determined outward from
within is good.

26. In whatever cases of ardent fever tremors occur, they are
carried off by a delirium.

27. Those cases of empyema or dropsy which are treated by incision
or the cautery, if the water or pus flow rapidly all at once,
certainly prove fatal.

28. Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

29. A woman does not take the gout, unless her menses be stopped.

30. A young man does not take the gout until he indulges in coition.

31. Pains of the eyes are removed by drinking pure wine, or the
bath, or a fomentation, or venesection, or purging.

32. Persons whose speech has become impaired are likely to be seized
with chronic diarrhoea.

33. Persons having acid eructations are not very apt to be seized
with pleurisy.

34. Persons who have become bald are not subject to large varices;
but should varices supervene upon persons who are bald, their hair
again grows thick.

35. Hiccup supervening in dropsical cases is bad.

36. Venesection cures dysuria; open the internal veins of the arm.

37. It is a good symptom when swelling on the outside of the neck