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Part 14
In a case of dropsy, when the water runs by the veins into the
belly, it removes the disease.
Part 15
In confirmed diarrhoea, vomiting, when it comes on spontaneously,
removes the diarrhoea.
Part 16
A diarrhoea supervening in a confirmed case of pleurisy or pneumonia
is bad.
Part 17
It is a good thing in ophthalmy for the patient to be seized with
diarrhoea.
Part 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.
Part 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.
Part 20
If blood be poured out preternaturally into a cavity, it must
necessarily become corrupted.
Part 21
In maniacal affections, if varices or hemorrhoids come on, they
remove the mania.
Part 22
Those ruptures in the back which spread down to the elbows are
removed by venesection.
Part 23
If a fright or despondency lasts for a long time, it is a melancholic
affection.
Part 24
If any of the intestines be transfixed, it does not unite.
Part 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.
Part26
In whatever cases of ardent fever tremors occur, they are carried
off by a delirium.
Part 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.
Part 28
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
Part 29
A woman does not take the gout, unless her menses be stopped.
Part 30
A young man does not take the gout until he indulges in coition.