Aphorisms   

21. Hemorrhage upon a strong pulsation in wounds is bad.

22. Suppuration upon a protracted pain of the parts about the bowels
is bad.

23. Dysentery upon unmixed alvine discharges is bad.

24. Delirium upon division of the cranium, if it penetrate into
the cavity of the head, is bad.

25. Convulsion upon severe purging is mortal.

26. Upon severe pain of the parts about the bowels, coldness of
the extremities coming on is bad.

27. Tenesmus coming on in a case of pregnancy causes abortion.

28. Whatever piece of bone, cartilage, or nerve (tendon?) is cut
off, it neither grows nor unites.

29. When strong diarrhoea supervenes in a case of leucophlegmatia,
it removes the disease.

30. In those cases in which frothy discharges occur in diarrhoea
there are defluxions from the head.

31. When there is a farinaceous sediment in the urine during
fever, it indicates a protracted illness.

32. In those cases in which the urine is thin at first, and the
sediments become bilious, an acute disease is indicated.

33. In those cases in which the urine becomes divided there is great
disorder in the body.

34. When bubbles settle on the surface of the urine, they indicate
disease of the kidneys, and that the complaint will be protracted.

35. When the scum on the surface is fatty and copious, it
indicates acute diseases of the kidneys.

36. Whenever the aforementioned symptoms occur in nephritic
diseases, and along with them acute pains about the muscles of the
back, provided these be seated about the external parts, you may
expect that there will be an abscess; but if the pains be rather about
the internal parts, you may also rather expect that the abscess will
be seated internally.

37. Haematemesis, without fever, does not prove fatal, but with
fever it is bad; it is to be treated with refrigerant and styptic
things.

38. Defluxions into the cavity of the chest suppurate in twenty
days.

39. When a patient passes blood and clots, and is seized with
strangury and pain in the perineum and pubes, disease about the
bladder is indicated.

40. If the tongue suddenly lose its powers, or a part of the body
become apoplectic, the affection is of a melancholic nature.

41. In hypercatharsis, of old persons, hiccup supervening is not a