The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian.

The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian.
By Aretaeus
Edited by: Francis Adams LL.D. (trans.)

Boston Milford House Inc. 1972 (Republication of the 1856 edition).


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OF ARETÆUS, THE CAPPADOCIAN. CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS OF ACUTE DISEASE
   BOOK I.

OF ARETÆUS, THE CAPPADOCIAN, ON THE CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS OF ACUTE DISEASE
   BOOK II.

OF ARETÆUS, THE CAPPADOCIAN, ON THE CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS OF CHRONIC DISEASE
   BOOK I.


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OF ARETÆUS, THE CAPPADOCIAN, ON THE CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS OF CHRONIC DISEASE

BOOK I.

CHAPTER IX.

 [p. 510]

URINE. See under Kidneys.

a copious discharge of, removes hepatitis, 279.

pneumonia, 263.

dropsy, 337.

URINARY FISTULA (ῥΟιὰς) from wound of the bladder, 344.

VARI, like hail-stones, in the tongue, from elephantiasis, 370.

or pustules, excited by medicines rubbed into the skin, 462.

VENA CAVA, description of disease of, 279-82.

its treatment, 443-4.

VENA PORTÆ; see Portæ.

VENESECTION from the vein at the elbow, 379, et pluries.

(consult the chapters under angina, apoplexy, cephalæa, affections of the uvula, epilepsy, hæmoptysis, hysterical convulsions, ileus, lethargy, melancholia, pleurisy, suppression of urine, satyriasis, syncope, tetanus, ulcers of the tonsils, acute affections of the bladder, etc.)

from the frontal vein (consult cephalæa, epilepsy, vertigo).

from the veins of the tongue (consult angina).

from the nasal veins (see bringing up of blood, and cephalæa).

at the pubes, 450.

at the ankle, 449.

quantity of blood to be abstracted by, 458, et alibi.

use of a large opening in, 405.

VERTIGO; see under Scotoma.

VOCIFERATION; see Voice.

VOICE, exercise of, in cœliac disease, 492.

in elephantiasis, 497.

VOMITING, disuse of, a cause of cachexia, p. 329, l. 8 (overlooked in the translation).

how to be procured in boys by the unguentum irinum, 399.

on an empty stomach, in elephantiasis, 495.

melancholia, 476.

from radishes in cœliac disease,492.

elephantiasis, 495.

melancholy, 474.

vertigo, 465.

from hellebore. See Hellebore.

WATER, COLD, a cause of angina, 252.

of dysentery, 354.

of ileus, 275.

its medicinal uses in cholera, 434.

tepid, uses of, in cholera, 435.

thermal, or natural hot water, uses of, in melancholy, 477.

WINE, its medicinal powers, 386.

uses in cholera, 432.

in phrenitis, 386.

in the last stage of syncope, a remedium unicum, 431.

dangerous in inflammation, 430.

in excess, a cause of angina, 404.

of apoplexy, 305.

of inflammation of the liver, 278.

of madness, 302.

of paralysis, 307.

WOMB, seat and nature of the, 285.

cancer of the, 361.

fluor albus and niger of the, 359.

hemorrhage and inflammation of the, 287.

treatment of, 449.

dropsy of the, 337.

phagedænic ulcer of the, 360.

prolapsus of the, 361.

ulcers of the os, 360.

WORMWOOD, an antibilious medicine, 475, 497, 433.

WOUND, a fatal cause of tetanus, 246.

of paralysis, 307.