[p. 96]acrid and
irregular stools of a colliquative nature, if they can bear it, should
procure revulsion by vomiting with hellebore; but if not, should get
a thick decoction of summer wheat in a cold state, lentil soup, bread
cooked with cinders, and fish, which should be taken boiled if they
have fever, but roasted if not feverish; and also dark-colored wine
if free of fever; but otherwise they should take the water from medlars,
myrtles, apples, services, dates, or wild vine. If there be no fever,
and if there be tormina, the patient should drink hot asses' milk
in small quantity at first, and gradually increase it, and linseed,
and wheaten flour, and having removed the bitter part of Egyptian
beans, and ground them, sprinkle on the milk and drink; and let him
eat eggs half-roasted, and fine flour, and millet, and perl-spelt
(chondrus) boiled in milk;- all these things should be eaten cold,
and similar articles of food and drink should be administered.
PART 22
The most important point of regimen to observe and be guarded about
in protracted diseases, is to pay attention to the exacerbations and
remissions of fevers, so as to avoid the times when food should not
be given, and to know when it may be administered without danger;
this last season is at the greatest possible distance from the exacerbation.
PART 23
One should be able to recognize those who have headache from gymnastic
exercises, or running, or walking or hunting, or any other unseasonable
labor, or from immoderate venery; also those who are of a pale color,
or troubled with hoarseness; those who have enlarged spleen, those
who are in a state of anaemia, those who are suffering from tympanites,
those having dry cough and thirst, those who are flatulent, and have
the course of the blood in their veins intercepted; those persons
whose hypochondria, sides, and back are distended: those having torpor;
those laboring under amaurosis, or having noises in their ears; those
suffering from incontinence of urine or jaundice, or whose food is
passed undigested; those who have discharges of blood from the nose
or anus, or who have flatulence and intense pain, and who cannot retain
the wind. In these cases you may do mischief, but cannot possibly
do any good by purging, but may interrupt the spontaneous remissions
and crises of the complaints.
PART 24
If you think it expedient to let blood, see that the bowels
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