33. Persons having acid eructations are not very apt to be seized with pleurisy.
34. Persons who have become bald are not subject to large varices;but should varices supervene upon persons who are bald, their hair again grows thick.
35. Hiccup supervening in dropsical cases is bad.
36. Venesection cures dysuria; open the internal veins of the arm.
37. It is a good symptom when swelling on the outside of the neck seizes a person very ill of quinsy, for the disease is turned outwardly.
38. It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for, if treated, the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
39. Convulsions take place either from repletion or depletion; and so it is with hiccup.
40. When pains, without inflammation, occur about the hypochondria, in such cases, fever supervening removes the pain.
41. When pus formed anywhere in the body does not point, this is owing to the thickness of the part.
42. In cases of jaundice, it is a bad symptom when the liver becomes indurated.
43. When persons having large spleens are seized with dysentery, and if the dysentery pass into a chronic state, either dropsy or lientery supervenes, and they die.
44. When ileus comes on in a case of strangury, they prove fatal in seven days, unless, fever supervening, there be a copious discharge of urine.
45. When ulcers continue open for a year or upward, there must necessarily be exfoliation of bone, and the cicatrices are hollow.
46. Such persons as become hump-backed from asthma or cough before puberty, die.
47. Persons who are benefited by venesection or purging, should be bled or purged in spring.
48. In enlargement of the spleen, it is a good symptom when dysentery comes on.
49. In gouty affections, the inflammation subsides in the course of forty days.
50. When the brain is severely wounded, fever and vomiting of bile necessarily supervene.
51. When persons in good health are suddenly seized with pains in the head, and straightway are laid down speechless, and breathe with stertor, they die in seven days, unless fever come on.
52. We must attend to the appearances of the eyes in sleep, as presented from below; for if a portion of the white be seen between the closed eyelids, and if this be not connected with diarrhaea or severe purging, it is a very bad and mortal symptom.
53. Delirium attended with laughter is less dangerous than delirium attended with a serious mood.
54. In acute diseases, complicated with fever, a moaning respiration is bad.
55. For the most part, gouty affections rankle in spring and in autumn.
56. In melancholic affections, determinations of the humor which occasions them produce the following diseases; either apoplexy of the whole body, or convulsion, or madness, or blindness.
57. Persons are most subject to apoplexy between the ages of forty and sixty.
58. If the omentum protrude, it necessarily mortifies and drops off.
59. In chronic diseases of the hip-joint, if the bone protrude and return again into its socket, there is mucosity in the place.
60. In persons affected with chronic disease of the hip-joint, if the bone protrude from its socket, the limb becomes wasted and maimed, unless the part be cauterized.