benefited by having the straight vein in the forehead opened.

69. Rigors commence in women, especially at the loins, and spread by
the back to the head; and in men also, rather in the posterior than
the anterior side of the body, as from the arms and thighs; the skin
there is rare, as is obvious from the growth of hair on them.

70. Persons attacked with quartans are not readily attacked with
convulsions, or if previously attacked with convulsions, they cease if
a quartan supervene.

71. In those persons in whom the skin is stretched, and parched
and hard, the disease terminates without sweats; but in those in
whom the skin is loose and rare, it terminates with sweats.

72. Persons disposed to jaundice are not very subject to flatulence.


SECTION VI.

1. In cases of chronic lientery, acid eructations supervening when
there were none previously, is a good symptom.

2. Persons whose noses are naturally watery, and their seed
watery, have rather a deranged state of health; but those in the
opposite state, a more favorable.

3. In protracted cases of dysentery, loathing of food is a bad
symptom, and still worse, if along with fever.

4. Ulcers, attended with a falling off of the hair, are mali moris.

5. It deserves to be considered whether the pains in the sides,
and in the breasts, and in the other parts, differ much from one
another.

6. Diseases about the kidneys and bladder are cured with
difficulty in old men.

7. Pains occurring about the stomach, the more superficial they are,
the more slight are they; and the less superficial, the more severe.

8. In dropsical persons, ulcers forming on the body are not easily
healed.

9. Broad exanthemata are not very itchy.

10. In a person having a painful spot in the head, with intense
cephalalgia, pus or water running from the nose, or by the mouth, or
at the ears, removes the disease.

11. Hemorrhoids appearing in melancholic and nephritic affections
are favorable.

12. When a person has been cured of chronic hemorrhoids, unless
one be left, there is danger of dropsy or phthisis supervening.

13. Sneezing coming on, in the case of a person afflicted with
hiccup, removes the hiccup.

14. In a case of dropsy, when the water runs by the veins into the
belly, it removes the disease.

15. In confirmed diarrhoea, vomiting, when it comes on