calculus, round worms, ascarides, acrochordon, satyriasmus, struma,
and other tubercles (phymata), but especially the aforesaid.

27. To persons of a more advanced age, and now on the verge of
manhood, the most of these diseases, and, moreover, more chronic
fevers, and epistaxis.

28. Young people for the most part have a crisis in their
complaints, some in forty days, some in seven months, some in seven
years, some at the approach to puberty; and such complaints of
children as remain, and do not pass away about puberty, or in
females about the commencement of menstruation, usually become
chronic.

29. To persons past boyhood, haemoptysis, phthisis, acute fevers,
epilepsy, and other diseases, but especially the aforementioned.

30. To persons beyond that age, asthma, pleurisy, pneumonia,
lethargy, phrenitis, ardent fevers, chronic diarrhoea, cholera,
dysentery, lientery, hemorrhoids.

31. To old people dyspnoea, catarrhs accompanied with coughs,
dysuria, pains of the joints, nephritis, vertigo, apoplexy,
cachexia, pruritus of the whole body, insomnolency, defluxions of
the bowels, of the eyes, and of the nose, dimness of sight, cataract
(glaucoma), and dullness of hearing.


SECTION IV.

1. We must purge pregnant women, if matters be turgid (in a state of
orgasm?), from the fourth to the seventh month, but less freely in the
latter; in the first and last stages of pregnancy it should be
avoided.

2. In purging we should bring away such matters from the body as
it would be advantageous had they come away spontaneously; but those
of an opposite character should be stopped.

3. If the matters which are purged be such as should be purged, it
is beneficial and well borne; but if the contrary, with difficulty.

4. We should rather purge upward in summer, and downward in winter.

5. About the time of the dog-days, and before it, the administration
of purgatives is unsuitable.

6. Lean persons who are easily made to vomit should be purged
upward, avoiding the winter season.

7. Persons who are difficult to vomit, and are moderately fat,
should be purged downward, avoiding the summer season.

8. We must be guarded in purging phthisical persons upward.

9. And from the same mode of reasoning, applying the opposite rule
to melancholic persons, we must purge them freely downward.

10. In very acute diseases, if matters be in a state of orgasm, we
may purge on the first day, for it is a bad thing to procrastinate
in such cases.

11. Those cases in which there are tormina, pains about the
umbilicus, and pains about the loins, not removed either by