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cities as are well situated with regard to sun and
winds, and use good waters, are less affected by such
changes ; but if they use marshy or standing waters,
and are not well situated with regard to winds and
sun, they are more affected. If the summer prove
dry, the diseases cease more quickly ; if it be rainy,
they are protracted. Sores are apt to fester from the
slightest cause. Lienteries and dropsies supervene
on the conclusion of the diseases, as the bowels do
not readily dry up. If the summer and the autumn
be rainy and southerly, the winter must be unhealthy ;
phlegmatics and men over forty are likely
to suffer from ardent fevers, bilious people from
pleurisy and pneumonia. If the summer prove dry
and northerly, and the autumn rainy and southerly,
it is likely that in winter headaches occur and
mortifications of the brain, and in
addition hoarseness,
colds in the head, coughs, and in some cases consumption
as well. But if the weather be northerly
and dry, with no rain either during the Dog Star or
at Arcturus, it is very beneficial to those who have
a phlegmatic or humid constitution, and to women,
but it is very harmful to the bilious. For these dry
up overmuch, and are attacked by dry ophthalmia
and by acute, protracted fevers, in some cases too
by melancholies. For the most humid and watery
part of the bile is dried up and is spent, while the
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