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Part 22
When black bile is evacuated in the beginning of any disease whatever,
either upward or downward, it is a mortal symptom.
Part 23
In persons attenuated from any disease, whether acute or chronic,
or from wounds, or any other cause, if there be a discharge either
of black bile, or resembling black blood, they die on the following
day.
Part 24
Dysentery, if it commence with black bile, is mortal.
Part 25
Blood discharged upward, whatever be its character, is a bad symptom,
but downward it is (more?) favorable, and so also black dejections.
Part 26
If in a person ill of dysentery, substances resembling flesh be
discharged from the bowels, it is a mortal symptom.
Part 27
In whatever cases of fever there is a copious hemorrhage from
whatever channel, the bowels are in a loose state during convalescence.
Part 28
In all cases whatever, bilious discharges cease if deafness supervenes,
and in all cases deafness ceases when bilious discharges supervene.
Part 29
Rigors which occur on the sixth day have a difficult crisis.
Part 30
Diseases attended with paroxysms, if at the same hour that the
fever leaves it return again next day, are of difficult crisis.
Part 31
In febrile diseases attended with a sense of lassitude, deposits
form about the joints, and especially those of the jaws.
Part 32
In convalescents from diseases, if any part be pained, there deposits
are formed.
Part 33
But if any part be in a painful state previous to the illness,
there the disease fixes.
Part 34
If a person laboring under a fever, without any swelling in the
fauces, be seized with a sense of suffocation suddenly, it is a mortal
symptom.
Part 35
If in a person with fever, the become suddenly distorted, and
he cannot swallow unless with difficulty, although no swelling be
present, it is a mortal symptom.
Part 36
Sweats, in febrile diseases, are favorable, if they set in on
the third, fifth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth,
twenty-first, twenty-seventh, and thirty-fourth day, for these
