Aphorisms   

good symptom.

42. In a fever, is not of a bilious nature, a copious allusion of
hot water upon the head removes the fever.

43. A woman does not become ambidexterous.

44. When empyema is treated either by the cautery or incision, if
pure and white pus flow from the wound, the patients recover; but if
mixed with blood, slimy and fetid, they die.

45. When abscess of the liver is treated by the cautery or incision,
if the pus which is discharged be pure and white, the patients
recover, (for in this case it is situated in the coats of the
liver;) but if it resemble the lees of oil as it flows, they die.

46. Pains of the eyes are removed by drinking undiluted wine,
plenteous bathing with hot water, and venesection.

47. If a dropsical patient be seized with hiccup the case is
hopeless.

48. Strangury and dysuria are cured by drinking pure wine, and
venesection; open the vein on the inside.

49. It is a good sign when swelling and redness on the breast
seize a person very ill of quinsy, for in this case the disease is
diverted outwardly.

50. When the brain is attacked with sphacelus, the patients die in
three days; or if they escape these, they recover.

51. Sneezing arises from the head, owing to the brain being
heated, or the cavity (ventricle) in the head being filled with
humors; the air confined in it then is discharged, and makes a
noise, because it comes through a narrow passage.

52. Fever supervening on painful affections of the liver removes the
pain.

53. Those persons to whom it is beneficial to have blood taken
from their veins, should have it done in spring.

54. In those cases where phlegm is collected between the diaphragm
and the stomach, and occasions pain, as not finding a passage into
either of the cavities, the disease will be carried off if the
phlegm be diverted to the bladder by the veins.

55. When the liver is filled with water and bursts into the
epiploon, in this case the belly is filled with water and the
patient dies.

56. Anxiety, yawning, rigor,-wine drunk with an equal proportion
of water, removes these complaints.

57. When tubercles (phymata) form in the urethra, if they
suppurate and burst, the pain is carried off.

58. In cases of concussion of the brain produced by any cause, the
patients necessarily lose their speech.

59. In a person affected with fever, when there is no swelling in
the fauces, should suffocation suddenly come on, and the patient not
be able to swallow, except with difficulty, it is a mortal symptom.