PART 17
One might here say- but persons in ardent fevers, pneumonia, and other
formidable diseases, do not quickly get rid of the heat, nor experience
these rapid alterations of heat and cold. And I reckon this very circumstance
the strongest proof that it is not from heat simply that men get into
the febrile state, neither is it the sole cause of the mischief, but
that this species of heat is bitter, and that acid, and the other
saltish, and many other varieties; and again there is cold combined
with other qualities. These are what proves injurious; heat, it is
true, is present also, possessed of strength as being that which conducts,
is exacerbated and
[p. 13]increased along with the other, but has no power
greater than what is peculiar to itself.