59a. In the case of a person oppressed by fever, if the neck be
turned aside, and the patient cannot swallow, while there is no
swelling in the neck, it is a mortal sign.

60. Fasting should be prescribed the those persons who have humid
flesh; for fasting dries bodies.

61. When there are changes in the whole body, and the body becomes
sometimes cold and sometimes hot, and the color changes, a
protracted disease is indicated.

62. A copious sweat, hot or cold, constantly flowing, indicates a
superabundance of humidity; we must evacuate then, in a strong
person upward, and in a weak, downward.

63. Fevers, not of the intermittent type, if they become exacerbated
every third day are dangerous; but if they intermit in any form
whatever, this shows that they are not dangerous.

64. In cases of protracted fever, either chronic abscesses or
pains in the joints come on.

65. When chronic abscesses (phymata) or pains in the joints take
place after fevers, the patients are using too much food.

66. If one give to a person in fever the same food which is given to
a person in good health, what is strength to the one is disease to the
other.

67. We must look to the urinary evacuations, whether they resemble
those of persons in health; if not at all so, they are particularly
morbid, but if they are like those of healthy persons, they are not at
all morbid.

68. When the dejections are allowed to stand and not shaken, and a
sediment is formed like scrapings (of the bowels), in such a case it
is proper to purge the bowels; and if you give ptisans before purging,
the more you give the more harm you will do.

69. Crude dejections are the product of black bile; if abundant,
of more copious, and if deficient, of less copious collections of it.

70. The sputa in fevers, not of an intermittent type, which are
livid, streaked with blood, and fetid, are all bad, it is favorable
when this evacuation, like the urinary and alvine, passes freely;
and whenever any discharge is suppressed and not purged off it is bad.

71. When you wish to purge the body, you must bring it into a
state favorable to evacuations; and if you wish to dispose it to
evacuations upward, you must bind the belly; and if you wish to
dispose it to evacuations downward, you must moisten the belly.

72. Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate,
constitute disease.

73. In fevers which do not intermit, if the external parts be
cold, and the internal burning hot, and fever prevail, it is a
mortal sign.

74. In a fever which does not intermit, if a lip, the nose, or an
eye be distorted, if the patient lose his sense of sight or of
hearing, while now in a weak state,-whatever of these symptoms
occurs it is mortal.