SECTION V
Part 1
A spasm from taking hellebore is of a fatal nature.
Part 2
Spasm supervening on a wound is fatal.
Part 3
A convulsion, or hiccup, supervening on a copious discharge of
blood is bad.
Part 4
A convulsion, or hiccup, supervening upon hypercatharsis is bad.
Part 5
If a drunken person suddenly lose his speech, he will die convulsed,
unless fever come on, or he recover his speech at the time when the
consequences of a debauch pass off.
Part 6
Such persons as are seized with tetanus die within four days, or
if they pass these they recover.
Part 7
Those cases of epilepsy which come on before puberty may undergo
a change; but those which come on after twenty-five years of age,
for the most part terminate in death.
Part 8
In pleuritic affections, when the disease is not purged off in
fourteen days, it usually terminates in empyema.
Part 9
Phthisis most commonly occurs between the ages of eighteen and
thirty-five years.
Part 10
Persons who escape an attack of quinsy, and when the
[p. 316]disease is
turned upon the lungs, die in seven days; or if they pass these they
become affected with empyema.
Part 11
In persons affected with phthisis, if the sputa which they cough
up have a heavy smell when poured upon coals, and if the hairs of
the head fall off, the case will prove fatal.
Part 12
Phthisical persons, the hairs of whose head fall off, die if diarrhoea
set in.
Part 13
In persons who cough up frothy blood, the discharge of it comes
from the lungs.
Part 14
Diarrhoea attacking a person affected with phthisis is a mortal
symptom.
Part 15
Persons who become affected with empyema after pleurisy, if they
get clear of it in forty days from the breaking of it, escape the
disease; but if not, it passes into phthisis.
Part 16
Heat produces the following bad effects on those who use it frequently:
enervation of the fleshy parts, impotence of the nerves, torpor of
the understanding, hemorrhages, deliquia, and, along with these, death.
Part 17
Cold induces convulsions, tetanus, mortification, and febrile
rigors.
Part 18
Cold is inimical to the bones, the teeth, the nerves, the brain,
and the spinal marrow, but heat is beneficial.
Part 19
Such parts as have been congealed should be heated, except where
there either is a hemorrhage, or one is expected.
Part 20
Cold pinches ulcers, hardens the skin, occasions pain which does
not end in suppuration, blackens, produces febrile rigors, convulsions,
and tetanus.
Part 21
In the case of a muscular youth having tetanus without a wound,
during the midst of summer, it sometimes happens that the allusion
of a large quantity of cold water recalls the heat. Heat relieves
these diseases.
Part 22
Heat is suppurative, but not in all kinds of sores, but when it
is, it furnishes the greatest test of their being free from danger.
It softens the skin, makes it thin, removes pain, soothes rigor, convulsions,
and tetanus. It removes affections of the head, and heaviness of it.
It is particularly efficacious in fractures of the bones, especially
of those which have been exposed, and most
[p. 317]especially in wounds of
the head, and in mortifications and ulcers from cold; in herpes exedens,
of the anus, the privy parts, the womb, the bladder, in all these
cases heat is agreeable, and brings matters to a crisis; but cold
is prejudicial, and does mischief.
Part 23
Cold water is to be applied in the following cases; when there
is a hemorrhage, or when it is expected, but not applied
to the spot,
but
around the spot whence the blood flows; and in inflammations and
inflammatory affections, inclining to a red and subsaguineous color,
and consisting of fresh blood, in these cases it is to be applied
but it occasions mortification in old cases; and in erysipelas not
attended with ulceration, as it proves injurious to erysipelas when
ulcerated.
Part 24
Cold things, such as snow and ice, are inimical to the chest,
being provocative of coughs, of discharges of blood, and of catarrhs.
Part 25
Swellings and pains in the joints, ulceration, those of a gouty
nature, and sprains, are generally improved by a copious affusion
of cold water, which reduces the swelling, and removes the pain; for
a moderate degree of numbness removes pain.
Part 26
The lightest water is that which is quickly heated and quickly
cooled.
Part 27
When persons have intense thirst, it is a good thing if they can
sleep off the desire of drinking.
Part 28
Fumigation with aromatics promotes menstruation, and would be
useful in many other cases, if it did not occasion heaviness of the
head.
Part 29
Women in a state of pregnancy may be purged, if there be any urgent
necessity (
or, if the humors be in a state of orgasm?), from the fourth
to the seventh month, but less so in the latter case. In the first
and last periods it must be avoided.
Part 30
It proves fatal to a woman in a state of pregnancy, if she be
seized with any of the acute diseases.
Part 31
If a woman with child be bled, she will have an abortion, and
this will be the more likely to happen, the larger the foetus.
Part 32
Haemoptysis in a woman is removed by an eruption of the menses.
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Part 33
In a woman when there is a stoppage the menses, a discharge of
blood from the nose is good.
Part 34
When a pregnant woman has a violent diarrhoea, there is danger
of her miscarrying.
Part 35
Sneezing occurring to a woman affected with hysterics, and in
difficult labor, is a good symptom.
Part 36
When the menstrual discharge is of a bad color and irregular,
it indicates that the woman stands in need of purging.
Part 37
In a pregnant woman, if the breasts suddenly lose their fullness,
she has a miscarriage.
Part 38
If, in a woman pregnant with twins, either of her breasts lose
its fullness, she will part with one of her children; and if it be
the right breast which becomes slender, it will be the male child,
or if the left, the female.
Part 39
If a woman who is not with child, nor has brought forth, have
milk, her menses are obstructed.
Part 40
In women, blood collected in the breasts indicates madness.
Part 41
If you wish to ascertain if a woman be with child, give her hydromel
to drink when she is going to sleep, and has not taken supper, and
if she be seized with tormina in the belly, she is with child, but
otherwise she is not pregnant.
Part 42
A woman with child, if it be a male, has a good color, but if
a female, she has a bad color.
Part 43
If erysipelas of the womb seize a woman with child, it will probably
prove fatal.
Part 44
Women who are very lean, have miscarriages when they prove with
child, until they get into better condition.
Part 45
When women, in a moderate condition of body, miscarry in the second
or third month, without any obvious cause, their cotyledones are filled
with mucosity, and cannot support the weight of the foetus, but are
broken asunder.
Part 46
Such women as are immoderately fat, and do not prove with child,
in them it is because the epiploon (
fat?) blocks up the mouth of the
womb, and until it be reduced, they do not conceive.
Part 47
If the portion of the uterus seated near the hip-joint suppurate,
it gets into a state requiring to be treated with tents.
Part 48
The male foetus is usually seated in the right, and the female
in the left side.
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Part 49
To procure the expulsion of the secundines, apply a sternutatory,
and shut the nostrils and mouth.
Part 50
If you wish to stop the menses in a woman, apply as large a cupping
instrument as possible to the breasts.
Part 51
When women are with child, the mouth of their womb is closed.
Part 52
If in a woman with child, much milk flow from the breasts, it
indicates that the foetus is weak; but if the breasts be firm, it
indicates that the foetus is in a more healthy state.
Part 53
In women that are about to miscarry, the breasts become slender;
but if again they become hard, there will be pain, either in the breasts,
or in the hip-joints, or in the eyes, or in the knees, and they will
not miscarry.
Part 54
When the mouth of the uterus is hard, it is also necessarily shut.
Part 55
Women with child who are seized with fevers, and who are greatly
emaciated, without any (other?) obvious cause, have difficult and
dangerous labors, and if they miscarry, they are in danger.
Part 56
In the female flux (
immoderate menstruation?), if convulsion and
deliquium come on, it is bad.
Part 57
When the menses are excessive, diseases take place, and when the
menses are stopped, diseases from the uterus take place.
Part 58
Strangury supervenes upon inflammation of the rectum, and of the
womb, and strangury supervenes upon suppuration of the kidney, and
hiccup upon inflammation of the liver.
Part 59
If a woman do not conceive, and wish to ascertain whether she
can conceive, having wrapped her up in blankets, fumigate below, and
if it appear that the scent passes through the body to the nostrils
and mouth, know that of herself she is not unfruitful.
Part 60
If woman with a child have her courses, it is impossible that
the child can be healthy.
Part 61
If a woman's courses be suppressed, and neither rigor nor fever
has followed, but she has been affected with nausea, you may reckon
her to be with child.
Part 62
Women who have the uterus cold and dense (
compact?) do not conceive;
and those also who have the uterus humid, do not conceive, for the
semen is extinguished, and in women whose
[p. 320]uterus is very dry, and
very hot, the semen is lost from the want of food; but women whose
uterus is in an intermediate state between these temperaments prove
fertile.
Part 63
And in like manner with respect to males; for either, owing to
the laxity of the body, the pneuma is dissipated outwardly, so as
not to propel the semen, or, owing to its density, the fluid (
semen?）
does not pass outwardly; or, owing to coldness, it is not heated so
as to collect in its proper place (
seminal vessels?), or, owing to
its heat, the very same thing happens.
Part 64
It is a bad thing to give milk to persons having headache, and
it is also bad to give it in fevers, and to persons whose hypochondria
are swelled up, and troubled with borborygmi, and to thirsty persons;
it is bad also, when given to those who have bilious discharges in
acute fevers, and to those who have copious discharges of blood; but
it is suitable in phthisical cases, when not attended with very much
fever; it is also to be given in fevers of a chronic and weak nature,
when none of the aforementioned symptoms are present, and the patients
are excessively emaciated.
Part 65
When swellings appear on wounds, such cases are not likely to
be attacked either with convulsions, or delirium, but when these disappear
suddenly, if situated behind, spasms and tetanus supervene, and if
before, mania, acute pains of the sides, or suppurations, or dysentery,
if the swellings be rather red.
Part 66
When no swelling appears on severe and bad wounds, it is a great
evil.
Part 67
In such cases, the soft are favorable; and crude, unfavorable.
Part 68
When a person is pained in the back part of the head, he is benefited
by having the straight vein in the forehead opened.
Part 69
Rigors commence in women, especially at the loins, and spread
by the back to the head; and in men also, rather in the posterior
than the anterior side of the body, as from the arms and thighs; the
skin there is rare, as is obvious from the growth of hair on them.
Part 70
Persons attacked with quartans are not readily attacked with convulsions,
or if previously attacked with convulsions, they cease if a quartan
supervene.
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Part 71
In those persons in whom the skin is stretched, and parched and
hard, the disease terminates without sweats; but in those in whom
the skin is loose and rare, it terminates with sweats.
Part 72
Persons disposed to jaundice are not very subject to flatulence.
