which the patient's constitution, habit, age, and the season are
allied, than when it is one to which they are not allied.

35. In all diseases it is better that the umbilical and
hypogastric regions preserve their fullness; and it is a bad sign when
they are very slender and emaciated; in the latter case it is
dangerous to administer purgatives.

36. Persons in good health quickly lose their strength by taking
purgative medicines, or using bad food.

37. Purgative medicines agree ill with persons in good health.

38. An article of food or drink which is slightly worse, but more
palatable, is to be preferred to such as are better but less
palatable.

39. Old have fewer complaints than young; but those chronic diseases
which do befall them generally never leave them.

40. Catarrhs and coryza in very old people are not concocted.

41. Persons who have had frequent and severe attacks of swooning,
without any manifest cause, die suddenly.

42. It is impossible to remove a strong attack of apoplexy, and
not easy to remove a weak attack.

43. Of persons who have been suspended by the neck, and are in a
state of insensibility, but not quite dead, those do not recover who
have foam at the mouth.

44. Persons who are naturally very fat are apt to die earlier than
those who are slender.

45. Epilepsy in young persons is most frequently removed by
changes of air, of country, and of modes of life.

46. Of two pains occurring together, not in the same part of the
body, the stronger weakens the other.

47. Pains and fevers occur rather at the formation of pus than
when it is already formed.

48. In every movement of the body, whenever one begins to endure
pain, it will be relieved by rest.

49. Those who are accustomed to endure habitual labors, although
they be weak or old, bear them better than strong and young persons
who have not been so accustomed.

50. Those things which one has been accustomed to for a long time,
although worse than things which one is not accustomed to, usually
give less disturbance; but a change must sometimes be made to things
one is not accustomed to.

51. To evacuate, fill up, heat, cool, or otherwise, move the body in
any way much and suddenly, is dangerous; and whatever is excessive
is inimical to nature; but whatever is done by little and little is
safe, more especially when a transition is made from one thing to
another.

52. When doing everything according to indications, although
things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not