[p. 112]happened to the greater number on the fifth
day from the commencement, left them for four days and relapsed; and
after the return, there was a crisis on the fifth day, making in all
fourteen days. The crisis took place thus in the case of most children,
also in elder persons. Some had a crisis on the eleventh day, a relapse
on the fourteenth, a complete crisis on the twentieth; but certain
persons, who had a rigor about the twentieth, had a crisis on the
fortieth. The greater part had a rigor along with the original crisis,
and these had also a rigor about the crisis in the relapse. There
were fewest cases of rigor in the spring, more in summer, still more
in autumn, but by far the most in winter; then hemorrhages ceased.
PART 8
With regard to diseases, the circumstances from which we form a
judgment of them are,- by attending to the general nature of all,
and the peculiar nature of each individual,- to the disease, the patient,
and the applications,- to the person who applies them, as that makes
a difference for better or for worse,- to the whole constitution of
the season, and particularly to the state of the heavens, and the
nature of each country;- to the patient's habits, regimen, and pursuits;-
to his conversation, manners, taciturnity, thoughts, sleep, or absence
of sleep, and sometimes his dreams, what and when they occur;- to
his picking and scratching;- to his tears;- to the alvine discharges,
urine, sputa, and vomitings; and to the changes of diseases from the
one into the other;- to the deposits, whether of a deadly or critical
character;- to the sweat, coldness, rigor, cough, sneezing, hiccup,
respiration, eructation, flatulence, whether passed silently or with
a noise;- to hemorrhages and hemorrhoids;- from these, and their consequences,
we must form our judgment.
PART 9
Fevers are,- the continual, some of which hold during the day and
have a remission at night, and others hold a remission during the
day; semi-tertians, tertians, quartans, quintans, septans, nonans.
The most acute, strongest, most dangerous, and fatal diseases, occur
in the continual fever. The least dangerous of all, and the mildest
and most protracted,
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