seizes a person very ill of quinsy, for the disease is turned
outwardly.

38. It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult
cancer; for, if treated, the patients die quickly; but if not treated,
they hold out for a long time.

39. Convulsions take place either from repletion or depletion; and
so it is with hiccup.

40. When pains, without inflammation, occur about the
hypochondria, in such cases, fever supervening removes the pain.

41. When pus formed anywhere in the body does not point, this is
owing to the thickness of the part.

42. In cases of jaundice, it is a bad symptom when the liver becomes
indurated.

43. When persons having large spleens are seized with dysentery, and
if the dysentery pass into a chronic state, either dropsy or
lientery supervenes, and they die.

44. When ileus comes on in a case of strangury, they prove fatal
in seven days, unless, fever supervening, there be a copious discharge
of urine.

45. When ulcers continue open for a year or upward, there must
necessarily be exfoliation of bone, and the cicatrices are hollow.

46. Such persons as become hump-backed from asthma or cough before
puberty, die.

47. Persons who are benefited by venesection or purging, should be
bled or purged in spring.

48. In enlargement of the spleen, it is a good symptom when
dysentery comes on.

49. In gouty affections, the inflammation subsides in the course
of forty days.

50. When the brain is severely wounded, fever and vomiting of bile
necessarily supervene.

51. When persons in good health are suddenly seized with pains in
the head, and straightway are laid down speechless, and breathe with
stertor, they die in seven days, unless fever come on.

52. We must attend to the appearances of the eyes in sleep, as
presented from below; for if a portion of the white be seen between
the closed eyelids, and if this be not connected with diarrhaea or
severe purging, it is a very bad and mortal symptom.

53. Delirium attended with laughter is less dangerous than
delirium attended with a serious mood.

54. In acute diseases, complicated with fever, a moaning respiration
is bad.

55. For the most part, gouty affections rankle in spring and in
autumn.

56. In melancholic affections, determinations of the humor which