PART 8
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.