2. Spasm supervening on a wound is fatal.

3. A convulsion, or hiccup, supervening on a copious discharge of
blood is bad.

4. A convulsion, or hiccup, supervening upon hypercatharsis is bad.

5. If a drunken person suddenly lose his speech, he will die
convulsed, unless fever come on, or he recover his speech at the
time when the consequences of a debauch pass off.

6. Such persons as are seized with tetanus die within four days,
or if they pass these they recover.

7. Those cases of epilepsy which come on before puberty may
undergo a change; but those which come on after twenty-five years of
age, for the most part terminate in death.

8. In pleuritic affections, when the disease is not purged off in
fourteen days, it usually terminates in empyema.

9. Phthisis most commonly occurs between the ages of eighteen and
thirty-five years.

10. Persons who escape an attack of quinsy, and when the disease
is turned upon the lungs, die in seven days; or if they pass these
they become affected with empyema.

11. In persons affected with phthisis, if the sputa which they cough
up have a heavy smell when poured upon coals, and if the hairs of
the head fall off, the case will prove fatal.

12. Phthisical persons, the hairs of whose head fall off, die if
diarrhoea set in.

13. In persons who cough up frothy blood, the discharge of it
comes from the lungs.

14. Diarrhoea attacking a person affected with phthisis is a
mortal symptom.

15. Persons who become affected with empyema after pleurisy, if they
get clear of it in forty days from the breaking of it, escape the
disease; but if not, it passes into phthisis.

16. Heat produces the following bad effects on those who use it
frequently: enervation of the fleshy parts, impotence of the nerves,
torpor of the understanding, hemorrhages, deliquia, and, along with
these, death.

17. Cold induces convulsions, tetanus, mortification, and febrile
rigors.

18. Cold is inimical to the bones, the teeth, the nerves, the brain,
and the spinal marrow, but heat is beneficial.

19. Such parts as have been congealed should be heated, except where
there either is a hemorrhage, or one is expected.

20. Cold pinches ulcers, hardens the skin, occasions pain which does
not end in suppuration, blackens, produces febrile rigors,
convulsions, and tetanus.