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on the eleventh day, a relapse on the fourteenth,
and a complete crisis on the twentieth. But if rigor
came on about the twentieth day the crisis came on
the fortieth. Most had rigors near the first crisis,
and those who had rigors at first near the crisis,
had rigors again in the relapses at the time of the
crisis. Fewest experienced rigors in the spring,
more in summer, more still in autumn, but by far
the most during winter. But the hemorrhages
tended to cease.
PART 23
XXIII. The following were the circumstances
attending the diseases, from which I framed my
judgments, learning from the common nature of all
and the particular nature of the individual, from the
disease, the patient, the regimen prescribed and the
prescriber--for these make a diagnosis more favourable
or less ; from the constitution, both as a whole
and with respect to the parts, of the weather and of
each region ; from the custom, mode of life, practices
and ages of each patient ; from talk, manner, silence,
thoughts, sleep or absence of sleep, the nature and
time of dreams, pluckings, scratchings, tears ; from
the exacerbations, stools, urine, sputa, vomit, the
antecedents and consequents of each member in the
successions of diseases, and the abscessions to a fatal
issue or a crisis, sweat, rigor, chill, cough, sneezes,
hiccoughs, breathing, belchings, flatulence, silent or
noisy, hemorrhages, and hemorrhoids. From these
things must we consider what their consequents also
will be.
PART 24
XXIV. Some fevers are continuous, some have an
access during the day and an intermission during
the night, or an access during the night and an
intermission during the day ; there are semitertians,
