1. In acute diseases, coldness of the extremities is bad.
2. Livid flesh on a diseased bone is bad.
3. Hiccup and redness of the eyes, when they supervene on vomiting, are bad.
4. A chill supervening on a sweat is not good.
5. Dysentery, or dropsy, or ecstacy coming on madness is good.
6. In a very protracted disease, loss of appetite and unmixed discharges from the bowels are bad symptoms.
7. A rigor and delirium from excessive drinking are bad.
8. From the rupture of an internal abscess, prostration of strength, vomiting, and deliquium animi result.
9. Delirium or convulsion from a flow of blood is bad.
10. Vomiting, or hiccup, or convulsion, or delirium, in ileus, is bad.
11. Pneumonia coming on pleurisy is bad.
12. Phrenitis along with pneumonia is bad.
13. Convulsion or tetanus, coming upon severe burning, is bad.
14. Stupor or delirium from a blow on the head is bad.
15. From a spitting of blood there is a spitting of pus.
16. From spitting of pus arise phthisis and a flux; and when the sputa are stopped, they die.
17. Hiccup in inflammation of the liver bad.
18. Convulsion or delirium supervening upon insomnolency is bad.
18a. Trembling upon lethargus is bad.
19. Erysipelas upon exposure of a bone (is bad?).
20. Mortification or suppuration upon erysipelas is bad.
21. Hemorrhage upon a strong pulsation in wounds is bad.
22. Suppuration upon a protracted pain of the parts about the bowels is bad.
23. Dysentery upon unmixed alvine discharges is bad.
24. Delirium upon division of the cranium, if it penetrate into the cavity of the head, is bad.
25. Convulsion upon severe purging is mortal.
26. Upon severe pain of the parts about the bowels, coldness of the extremities coming on is bad.
27. Tenesmus coming on in a case of pregnancy causes abortion.
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29. When strong diarrhoea supervenes in a case of leucophlegmatia, it removes the disease.
30. In those cases in which frothy discharges occur in diarrhoea there are defluxions from the head.
31. When there is a farinaceous sediment in the urine during fever, it indicates a protracted illness.
32. In those cases in which the urine is thin at first, and the sediments become bilious, an acute disease is indicated.
33. In those cases in which the urine becomes divided there is great disorder in the body.
34. When bubbles settle on the surface of the urine, they indicate disease of the kidneys, and that the complaint will be protracted.
35. When the scum on the surface is fatty and copious, it indicates acute diseases of the kidneys.
36. Whenever the aforementioned symptoms occur in nephritic diseases, and along with them acute pains about the muscles of the back, provided these be seated about the external parts, you may expect that there will be an abscess; but if the pains be rather about the internal parts, you may also rather expect that the abscess will be seated internally.
37. Haematemesis, without fever, does not prove fatal, but with fever it is bad; it is to be treated with refrigerant and styptic things.
38. Defluxions into the cavity of the chest suppurate in twenty days.
39. When a patient passes blood and clots, and is seized with strangury and pain in the perineum and pubes, disease about the bladder is indicated.
40. If the tongue suddenly lose its powers, or a part of the body become apoplectic, the affection is of a melancholic nature.
41. In hypercatharsis, of old persons, hiccup supervening is not a good symptom.
42. In a fever, is not of a bilious nature, a copious allusion of hot water upon the head removes the fever.
43. A woman does not become ambidexterous.
44. When empyema is treated either by the cautery or incision, if pure and white pus flow from the wound, the patients recover; but if mixed with blood, slimy and fetid, they die.
45. When abscess of the liver is treated by the cautery or incision, if the pus which is discharged be pure and white, the patients recover, (for in this case it is situated in the coats of the liver;) but if it resemble the lees of oil as it flows, they die.
46. Pains of the eyes are removed by drinking undiluted wine, plenteous bathing with hot water, and venesection.
47. If a dropsical patient be seized with hiccup the case is hopeless.
48. Strangury and dysuria are cured by drinking pure wine, and venesection; open the vein on the inside.
49. It is a good sign when swelling and redness on the breast seize a person very ill of quinsy, for in this case the disease is diverted outwardly.
50. When the brain is attacked with sphacelus, the patients die in three days; or if they escape these, they recover.
51. Sneezing arises from the head, owing to the brain being heated, or the cavity (ventricle) in the head being filled with humors; the air confined in it then is discharged, and makes a noise, because it comes through a narrow passage.
52. Fever supervening on painful affections of the liver removes the pain.
53. Those persons to whom it is beneficial to have blood taken from their veins, should have it done in spring.