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bones; especially of those which have been exposed; and most

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。



  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。



  24。 Cold things; such as snow and ice; are inimical to the chest;

being provocative of coughs; of discharges of blood; and of catarrhs。



  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。



  26。 The lightest water is that which is quickly heated and quickly

cooled。



  27。 When persons have intense thirst; it is a good thing if they can

sleep off the desire of drinking。



  28。 Fumigation with aromatics promotes menstruation; and would be

useful in many other cases; if it did not occasion heaviness of the

head。



  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。



  30。 It proves fatal to a woman in a state of pregnancy; if she be

seized with any of the acute diseases。



  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。



  32。 Haemoptysis in a woman is removed by an eruption of the menses。



  33。 In a woman when there is a stoppage the menses; a discharge of

blood from the nose is good。



  34。 When a pregnant woman has a violent diarrhoea; there is danger

of her miscarrying。



  35。 Sneezing occurring to a woman affected with hysterics; and in

difficult labor; is a good symptom。



  36。 When the menstrual discharge is of a bad color and irregular; it

indicates that the woman stands in need of purging。



  37。 In a pregnant woman; if the breasts suddenly lose their

fullness; she has a miscarriage。



  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。



  39。 If a woman who is not with child; nor has brought forth; have

milk; her menses are obstructed。



  40。 In women; blood collected in the breasts indicates madness。



  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。



  42。  A woman with child; if it be a male; has a good color; but if a

female; she has a bad color。



  43。 If erysipelas of the womb seize a woman with child; it will

probably prove fatal。



  44。 Women who are very lean; have miscarriages when they prove

with child; until they get into better condition。



  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。



  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。



  47。 If the portion of the uterus seated near the hip…joint

suppurate; it gets into a state requiring to be treated with tents。



  48。 The male foetus is usually seated in the right; and the female

in the left side。



  49。 To procure the expulsion of the secundines; apply a

sternutatory; and shut the nostrils and mouth。



  50。 If you wish to stop the menses in a woman; apply as large a

cupping instrument as possible to the breasts。



  51。 When women are with child; the mouth of their womb is closed。



  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。



  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。



  54。 When the mouth of the uterus is hard; it is also necessarily

shut。



  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。



  56。 In the female flux (immoderate menstruation?); if convulsion and

deliquium come on; it is bad。



  57。 When the menses are excessive; diseases take place; and when the

menses are stopped; diseases from the uterus take place。



  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。



  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。



  60。 If woman with a child have her courses; it is impossible that

the child can be healthy。



  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。



  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 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。



  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。



  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。



  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。



  66。 When no swelling appears on severe and bad wounds; it is a great

evil。



  67。 In such cases; the soft are favorable; and crude; unfavorable。



  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。



  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。



  70。 Persons attacked with quartans are not readily attacked with

convulsions; or if previously attacked with convulsions; they cease if

a quartan supervene。



  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。



  72。 Persons disposed to jaundice are not very subject to flatulence。





  SECTION VI。



  1。 In cases of chronic lientery; acid eructations supervening when

there were none previously; is a good symptom。



  2。 Persons whose noses are naturally watery; and their seed

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