Of The Epidemics   

more in summer, still more in autumn, but by far the most in winter;

then hemorrhages ceased.

Sect. III



1. With regard to diseases, the circumstances from which we form a

judgment of them are,- by attending to the general nature of all,

and the peculiar nature of each individual,- to the disease, the

patient, and the applications,- to the person who applies them, as

that makes a difference for better or for worse,- to the whole

constitution of the season, and particularly to the state of the

heavens, and the nature of each country;- to the patient's habits,

regimen, and pursuits;- to his conversation, manners, taciturnity,

thoughts, sleep, or absence of sleep, and sometimes his dreams, what

and when they occur;- to his picking and scratching;- to his tears;-

to the alvine discharges, urine, sputa, and vomitings; and to the

changes of diseases from the one into the other;- to the deposits,

whether of a deadly or critical character;- to the sweat, coldness,

rigor, cough, sneezing, hiccup, respiration, eructation, flatulence,

whether passed silently or with a noise;- to hemorrhages and

hemorrhoids;- from these, and their consequences, we must form our

judgment.

2. Fevers are,- the continual, some of which hold during the day and

have a remission at night, and others hold a remission during the day;

semi-tertians, tertians, quartans, quintans, septans, nonans. The most

acute, strongest, most dangerous, and fatal diseases, occur in the

continual fever. The least dangerous of all, and the mildest and

most protracted, is the quartan, for it is not only such from

itself, but it also carries off other great diseases. In what is

called the semi-tertian, other acute diseases are apt to occur, and it

is the most fatal of all others, and moreover phthisical persons,

and those laboring under other protracted diseases, are apt to be

attacked by it. The nocturnal fever is not very fatal, but protracted;