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 watery, have rather a deranged state of health; but those in the opposite state, a more favorable.
3. In protracted cases of dysentery, loathing of food is a bad symptom, and still worse, if along with fever.
4. Ulcers, attended with a falling off of the hair, are mali moris.
5. It deserves to be considered whether the pains in the sides, and in the breasts, and in the other parts, differ much from one another.
6. Diseases about the kidneys and bladder are cured with difficulty in old men.
7. Pains occurring about the stomach, the more superficial they are, the more slight are they; and the less superficial, the more severe.
8. In dropsical persons, ulcers forming on the body are not easily healed.
9. Broad exanthemata are not very itchy.
10. In a person having a painful spot in the head, with intense cephalalgia, pus or water running from the nose, or by the mouth, or at the ears, removes the disease.
11. Hemorrhoids appearing in melancholic and nephritic affections are favorable.
12. When a person has been cured of chronic hemorrhoids, unless one be left, there is danger of dropsy or phthisis supervening.
13. Sneezing coming on, in the case of a person afflicted with hiccup, removes the hiccup.
14. In a case of dropsy, when the water runs by the veins into the belly, it removes the disease.
15. In confirmed diarrhoea, vomiting, when it comes on spontaneously, removes the diarrhoea.
16. A diarrhoea supervening in a confirmed case of pleurisy or pneumonia is bad.
17. It is a good thing in ophthalmy for the patient to be seized with diarrhoea.
18. A severe wound of the bladder, of the brain, of the heart, of the diaphragm, of the small intestines, of the stomach, and of the liver, is deadly.
19. When a bone, cartilage, nerve, the slender part of the jaw, or prepuce, are cut out, the part is neither restored, nor does it unite.
20. If blood be poured out preternaturally into a cavity, it must necessarily become corrupted.
21. In maniacal affections, if varices or hemorrhoids come on, they remove the mania.
22. Those ruptures in the back which spread down to the elbows are removed by venesection.
23. If a fright or despondency lasts for a long time, it is a melancholic affection.
24. If any of the intestines be transfixed, it does not unite.
25. It is not a good sign for an erysipelas spreading outwardly to be determined inward; but for it to be determined outward from within is good.
26. In whatever cases of ardent fever tremors occur, they are carried off by a delirium.
27. Those cases of empyema or dropsy which are treated by incision or the cautery, if the water or pus flow rapidly all at once, certainly prove fatal.
28. Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
29. A woman does not take the gout, unless her menses be stopped.
30. A young man does not take the gout until he indulges in coition.
31. Pains of the eyes are removed by drinking pure wine, or the bath, or a fomentation, or venesection, or purging.
32. Persons whose speech has become impaired are likely to be seized with chronic diarrhoea.