5.59. If a woman do not conceive, and wish to ascertain whether she can conceive, having wrapped her up in blankets, fumigate below, and if it appear that the scent passes through the body to the nostrils and mouth, know that of herself she is not unfruitful.
5.59. 59. γυνὴ ἢν μὴ λαμβάνῃ ἐν γαστρὶ, βούλῃ δὲ εἰδέναι εἰ λήψεται, περικαλύψας ἱματίοισι, θυμία κάτω· κἢν μὲν πορεύεσθαι δοκέῃ ἡ ὀδμὴ διὰ τοῦ σώματος ἐς τὰς ῥῖνας καὶ ἐς τὸ στόμα, γίνωσκε ὅτι αὐτὴ οὐ διʼ ἑωυτὴν ἄγονός ἐστίν.
5.60. If woman with a child have her courses, it is impossible that the child can be healthy.
5.60. 60. ἢν γυναικὶ ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσῃ αἱ καθάρσιες πορεύωνται, ἀδύνατον τὸ ἔμβρυον ὑγιαίνειν.
5.61. If a woman’s courses be suppressed, and neither rigor nor fever has followed, but she has been affected with nausea, you may reckon her to be with child.
5.61. 61. ἢν γυναικὶ αἱ καθάρσιες μὴ πορεύωνται, μήτε φρίκης, μήτε πυρετοῦ ἐπιγινομένου, ἆσαι δὲ αὐτῇ προσπίπτωσι, λογίζου ταύτην ἐν γαστρὶ ἔχειν.
5.62. Women who have the uterus cold and dense (compact?) do not conceive; and those also who have the uterus humid, do not conceive, for the semen is extinguished, and in women whose uterus is very dry, and very hot, the semen is lost from the want of food; but women whose uterus is in an intermediate state between these temperaments prove fertile.
5.62. 62. ὁκόσαι ψυχρὰς καὶ πυκνὰς τὰς μήτρας ἔχουσιν, οὐ κυΐσκουσιν· καὶ ὁκόσαι καθύγρους ἔχουσι τὰς μήτρας, οὐ κυΐσκουσιν, ἀποσβέννυται γὰρ ὁ γόνος· καὶ ὁκόσαι ξηρὰς μᾶλλον καὶ περικαέας, ἐνδείῃ γὰρ τῆς τροφῆς φθείρεται τὸ σπέρμα· ὁκόσαι δὲ ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων τὴν κρᾶσιν ἔχουσι ξύμμετρον, αἱ τοιαῦται ἐπίτεκνοι γίνονται.
5.63. And in like manner with respect to males; for either, owing to the laxity of the body, the pneuma is dissipated outwardly, so as not to propel the semen, or, owing to its density, the fluid (semen?) does not pass outwardly; or, owing to coldness, it is not heated so as to collect in its proper place (seminal vessels?), or, owing to its heat, the very same thing happens.
5.63. 63. παραπλησίως δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀῤῥένων· ἢ γὰρ διὰ τὴν ἀραιότητα τοῦ σώματος τὸ πνεῦμα ἔξω φέρεται πρὸς τὸ μὴ παραπέμπειν τὸ σπέρμα· ἢ διὰ τὴν πυκνότητα τὸ ὑγρὸν οὐ διαχωρέει ἔξω· ἢ διὰ τὴν ψυχρότητα οὐκ ἐκπυροῦται, ὥστε ἀθροίζεσθαι πρὸς τὸν τόπον τοῦτον· ἢ διὰ τὴν θερμασίην τὸ αὐτὸ τοῦτο γίνεται.
5.64. It is a bad thing to give milk to persons having headache, and it is also bad to give it in fevers, and to persons whose hypochondria are swelled up, and troubled with borborygmi, and to thirsty persons; it is bad also, when given to those who have bilious discharges in acute fevers, and to those who have copious discharges of blood; but it is suitable in phthisical cases, when not attended with very much fever; it is also to be given in fevers of a chronic and weak nature, when none of the aforementioned symptoms are present, and the patients are excessively emaciated.
5.64. 64. γάλα διδόναι κεφαλαλγέουσι κακόν· κακὸν δὲ καὶ πυρεταίνουσι, καὶ οἷσιν ὑποχόνδρια μετέωρα καὶ διαβορβορύζοντα, καὶ τοῖσι διψώδεσι· κακὸν δὲ, καὶ οἷσι χολώδεες αἱ ὑπ χωρήσιες ἐν ὀξέσι πυρετοῖσιν ἐοῦσι, καὶ οἷσιν αἵματος πολλοῦ διαχώρησις γέγονεν· ἁρμόζει δὲ φθινώδεσι μὴ λίην πολλῷ πυρέσσουσιν· διδόναι δὲ καὶ ἐν πυρετοῖσι μακροῖσι βληχροῖσι, μηδενὸς τῶν προειρημένων σημείων παρεόντος, παρὰ λόγον δὲ ἐκτετηκότων.
5.65. When swellings appear on wounds, such cases are not likely to be attacked either with convulsions, or delirium, but when these disappear suddenly, if situated behind, spasms and tetanus supervene, and if before, mania, acute pains of the sides, or suppurations, or dysentery, if the swellings be rather red.
5.65. 65. Ὁκόσοισιν οἰδήματα ἐφʼ ἕλκεσι φαίνεται, οὐ μάλα σπῶνται, οὐδὲ μαίνονται· τουτέων δὲ ἀφανισθέντων ἐξαίφνης, τοῖσι μὲν ὄπισθεν σπασμοὶ, τέτανοι, τοῖσι δὲ ἔμπροσθεν μανίαι, ὀδύναι πλευροῦ ὀξεῖαι, ἢ ἐμπύησις, ἢ δυσεντερίη, ἢν ἐρυθρὰ μᾶλλον ᾖ τὰ οἰδήματα.
5.66. When no swelling appears on severe and bad wounds, it is a great evil.
5.66. 66. ἢν, τραυμάτων ἰσχυρῶν ἐόντων καὶ πονηρῶν, οἴδημα μὴ φαίνηται, μέγα κακόν.
5.67. In such cases, the soft are favorable; and crude, unfavorable.
5.67. 67. τὰ χαῦνα, χρηστὰ, τὰ ἔνωμα, κακά.
5.68. When a person is pained in the back part of the head, he is benefited by having the straight vein in the forehead opened.
5.68. 68. τῷ τὰ ὄπισθεν τῆς κεφαλῆς ὀδυνωμένῳ ἡ ἐν μετώπῳ ὀρθίη φλὲψ τμηθεῖσα, ὠφελέει.
5.69. Rigors commence in women, especially at the loins, and spread by the back to the head; and in men also, rather in the posterior than the anterior side of the body, as from the arms and thighs; the skin there is rare, as is obvious from the growth of hair on them.
5.69. 69. Ῥίγεα ἄρχεται, γυναιξὶ μὲν ἐξ ὀσφύος μᾶλλον καὶ διὰ νώτου ἐς κεφαλήν· ἀτὰρ καὶ ἀνδράσι μᾶλλον ὄπισθεν, ἢ ἔμπροσθεν τοῦ σώματος, οἷον ἀπὸ πήχεων καὶ μηρῶν· ἀτὰρ καὶ τὸ δέρμα ἀραιὸν ἔχουσι, δηλοῖ δὲ τοῦτο ἡ θρίξ.
5.70. Persons attacked with quartans are not readily attacked with convulsions, or if previously attacked with convulsions, they cease if a quartan supervene.
5.70. 70. οἱ ὑπὸ τεταρταίων ἁλισκόμενοι ὑπὸ σπασμοῦ οὐ πάνυ τι ἁλίσκονται· ἢν δὲ ἁλίσκωνται πρότερον, εἶτα ἐπιγένηται τεταρταῖος, παύονται.
5.71. In those persons in whom the skin is stretched, and parched and hard, the disease terminates without sweats; but in those in whom the skin is loose and rare, it terminates with sweats.
5.71. 71. Ὁκόσοισι δέρματα περιτείνεται καρφαλέα καὶ σκληρὰ, ἄνευ ἱδρῶτος τελευτῶσιν· ὁκόσοισι δὲ χαλαρὰ καὶ ἀραιὰ, σὺν ἱδρῶτι τελευτῶσιν.
5.72. Persons disposed to jaundice are not very subject to flatulence.
5.72. 72. οἱ ἰκτεριώδεες οὐ πάνυ τι πνευματώδεές εἰσιν.ΤΜΗΜΑ ΕΚΤΟΝ.
6.1. In cases of chronic lientery, acid eructations supervening when there were none previously, is a good symptom.
6.1. 1. ἐν τῇσι χρονίῃσι λειεντερίῃσιν ὀξυρεγμίη ἐπιγινομένη, μὴ γενομένη πρότερον, σημεῖον ἀγαθόν.
6.2. Persons whose noses are naturally watery, and their seed watery, have rather a deranged state of health; but those in the opposite state, a more favorable.
6.2. 2. οἷσι ῥῖνες ὑγρότεραι φύσει, καὶ ἡ γονὴ ὑγροτέρη, ὑγιαίνουσι νοσηρότερον· οἷσι δὲ τἀναντία, ὑγιεινότερον.
6.3. In protracted cases of dysentery, loathing of food is a bad symptom, and still worse, if along with fever.
6.3. 3. ἐν τῇσι μακρῇσι δυσεντερίῃσιν αἱ ἀποσιτίαι, κακόν· καὶ ξὺν πυρετῷ, κάκιον.
6.4. Ulcers, attended with a falling off of the hair, are mali moris.
6.4. 4. τὰ περιμάδαρα ἕλκεα, κακοήθεα.
6.5. It deserves to be considered whether the pains in the sides, and in the breasts, and in the other parts, differ much from one another.
6.5. 5. τῶν ὀδυνέων ἐν πλευρῇσι, καὶ ἐν στήθεσι, καὶ ἐν τοῖσιν ἄλλοισι μέρεσιν, ἢν μέγα διαφέρωσι, καταμαθητέον.
6.6. Diseases about the kidneys and bladder are cured with difficulty in old men.
6.6. 6. τὰ νεφριτικὰ, καὶ ὁκόσα κατὰ τὴν κύστιν, ἐργωδῶς ὑγιάζεται τοῖσι πρεσβύτῃσιν.
6.7. Pains occurring about the stomach, the more superficial they are, the more slight are they; and the less superficial, the more severe.
6.7. 7. τὰ ἀλγήματα τὰ κατὰ τὴν κοιλίην γινόμενα, τὰ μὲν μετέωρα κουφότερα, τὰ δὲ μὴ μετέωρα, ἰσχυρότερα.
6.8. In dropsical persons, ulcers forming on the body are not easily healed.
6.8. 8. τοῖσιν ὑδρωπικοῖσι τὰ γινόμενα ἕλκεα ἐν τῷ σώματι, οὐ ῥηϊδίως ὑγιάζεται.
6.9. Broad exanthemata are not very itchy.
6.9. 9. τὰ πλατέα ἐξανθήματα, οὐ πάνυ τι κνησμώδεα.
6.10. In a person having a painful spot in the head, with intense cephalalgia, pus or water running from the nose, or by the mouth, or at the ears, removes the disease.
6.10. 10. κεφαλὴν πονέοντι καὶ περιωδυνέοντι, πῦον, ἢ ὕδωρ, ἢ αἷμα ῥυὲν κατὰ τὰς ῥῖνας, ἢ κατὰ τὸ στόμα, ἢ κατὰ τὰ ὦτα, λύει τὸ νούσημα.
6.11. Hemorrhoids appearing in melancholic and nephritic affections are favorable.
6.11. 11. τοῖσι μελαγχολικοῖσι, καὶ τοῖσι νεφριτικοῖσιν αἱμοῤῥοΐδες ἐπιγινόμεναι, ἀγαθόν.
6.12. When a person has been cured of chronic hemorrhoids, unless one be left, there is danger of dropsy or phthisis supervening.
6.12. 12. τῷ ἰηθέντι χρονίας αἱμοῤῥοΐδας, ἢν μὴ μία φυλαχθῇ, κίνδυνος ὕδρωπα ἐπιγενέσθαι ἢ φθίσιν.
6.13. Sneezing coming on, in the case of a person afflicted with hiccup, removes the hiccup.
6.13. 13. ὑπὸ λυγμοῦ ἐχομένῳ πταρμοὶ ἐπιγενόμενοι λύουσι τὸν λυγμόν.
6.14. In a case of dropsy, when the water runs by the veins into the belly, it removes the disease.
6.14. 14. ὑπὸ ὕδρωπος ἐχομένῳ, κατὰ τὰς φλέβας ἐς τὴν κοιλίην ὕδατος ῥυέντος, λύσις.
6.15. In confirmed diarrhoea, vomiting, when it comes on spontaneously, removes the diarrhoea.
6.15. 15. ὑπὸ διαῤῥοίης ἐχομένῳ μακρῆς ἀπὸ ταυτομάτου ἔμετος ἐπιγινόμενος λύει τὴν διάῤῥοιαν.
6.16. A diarrhoea supervening in a confirmed case of pleurisy or pneumonia is bad.
6.16. 16. ὑπὸ πλευρίτιδος, ἢ ὑπὸ περιπλευμονίης ἐχομένῳ διάῤῥοια ἐπιγενομένη, κακόν.
6.17. It is a good thing in ophthalmy for the patient to be seized with diarrhoea.
6.17. 17. ὀφθαλμιῶντι, ὑπὸ διαῤῥοίης ληφθῆναι, ἀγαθόν.
6.18. 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.
6.18. 18. κύστιν διακοπέντι, ἢ ἐγκέφαλον, ἢ καρδίην, ἢ φρένας, ἢ τῶν ἐντέρων τι τῶν λεπτῶν, ἢ κοιλίην, ἢ ἧπαρ, θανατῶδες.
6.19. 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.
6.19. 19. ἐπὴν διακοπῇ ὀστέον, ἢ χονδρὸς, ἢ νεῦρον, ἢ γνάθου τὸ λεπτὸν, ἢ ἀκροποσθίη, οὔτε αὔξεται, οὔτε ξυμφύεται.
6.20. If blood be poured out preternaturally into a cavity, it must necessarily become corrupted.
6.20. 20. ἢν ἐς τὴν κοιλίην αἷμα ἐκχυθῇ παρὰ φύσιν, ἀνάγκη ἐκπυηθῆναι.
6.21. In maniacal affections, if varices or hemorrhoids come on, they remove the mania.
6.21. 21. τοῖσι μαινομένοισι, κιρσῶν ἢ αἱμοῤῥοΐδων ἐπιγινομένων, μανίης λύσις.
6.22. Those ruptures in the back which spread down to the elbows are removed by venesection.
6.22. 22. ὁκόσα ῥήγματα ἐκ τοῦ νώτου ἐς τοὺς ἀγκῶνας καταβαίνει, φλεβοτομίη λύει.
6.23. If a fright or despondency lasts for a long time, it is a melancholic affection.
6.23. 23. ἢν φόβος ἢ δυσθυμίη πουλὺν χρόνον διατελέῃ, μελαγχολικὸν τὸ τοιοῦτον.
6.24. If any of the intestines be transfixed, it does not unite.
6.24. 24. ἐντέρων ἢν διακοπῇ τῶν λεπτῶν τι, οὐ ξυμφύεται.
6.25. 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.
6.25. 25. ἐρυσίπελας, ἔξωθεν καταχεόμενον, ἔσω τρέπεσθαι οὐκ ἀγαθόν· ἔσωθεν δὲ ἔξω, ἀγαθόν.
6.26. In whatever cases of ardent fever tremors occur, they are carried off by a delirium.
6.26. 26. Ὁκόσοισιν ἂν ἐν τοῖσι καύσοισι τρόμοι γενωνται, παρακοπὴ λύει.
6.27. 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.
6.27. 27. ὁκόσοι ἔμπυοι ἢ ὑδρωπικοὶ τέμνονται ἢ καίονται, ἐκρυέντος τοῦ πύου ἢ τοῦ ὕδατος ἀθρόου, πάντως ἀπόλλυνται.
6.28. Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.
6.28. 28. εὐνοῦχοι οὐ ποδαγριῶσιν, οὐδὲ φαλακροὶ γίνονται.
6.29. A woman does not take the gout, unless her menses be stopped.
6.29. 29. γυνὴ οὐ ποδαγριᾷ, ἢν μὴ τὰ καταμήνια αὐτέῃ ἐκλίπῃ.
6.30. A young man does not take the gout until he indulges in coition.
6.30. 30. παῖς οὐ ποδαγριᾷ πρὸ τοῦ ἀφροδισιασμοῦ.
6.31. Pains of the eyes are removed by drinking pure wine, or the bath, or a fomentation, or venesection, or purging.
6.31. 31. ὀδύνας ὀφθαλμῶν ἀκρητοποσίη, ἢ λουτρὸν, ἢ πυρίη, ἢ φλεβοτομίη, ἢ φαρμακοποσίη λύει.
6.32. Persons whose speech has become impaired are likely to be seized with chronic diarrhoea.
6.32. 32. Τραυλοὶ ὑπὸ διαῤῥοίης μάλιστα ἁλίσκονται μακρῆς.
6.33. Persons having acid eructations are not very apt to be seized with pleurisy.
6.33. 33. οἱ ὀξυρεγμιώδεες οὐ πάνυ τι πλευριτικοὶ γίνονται.
6.34. Persons who have become bald are not subject to large varices; but should varices supervene upon persons who are bald, their hair again grows thick.
6.34. 34. ὁκόσοι φαλακροὶ, τουτέοισι κιρσοὶ μεγάλοι οὐ γίνονται· ὁκόσοισι δὲ φαλακροῖσιν ἐοῦσιν κιρσοὶ γίνονται, πάλιν οὗτοι γίνονται δασέες.
6.35. Hiccup supervening in dropsical cases is bad.
6.35. 35. τοῖσιν ὑδρωπικοῖσι βὴξ ἐπιγενομένη, κακόν.
6.36. Venesection cures dysuria; open the internal veins of the arm.
6.36. 36. Δυσουρίην φλεβοτομίη λύει, τάμνειν δὲ τὰς ἔσω.
6.37. It is a good symptom when swelling on the outside of the neck seizes a person very ill of quinsy, for the disease is turned outwardly.
6.37. 37. ὑπὸ κυνάγχης ἐχομένῳ οἰδήματα γενέσθαι ἐν τῷ βρόγχῳ ἔξω, ἀγαθόν.
6.38. It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for, if treated, the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
6.38. 38. Ὁκόσοισι κρυπτοὶ καρκίνοι γίνονται, μὴ θεραπεύειν βέλτιον· θεραπευόμενοι γὰρ ἀπόλλυνται ταχέως, μὴ θεραπευόμενοι δὲ, πουλὺν χρόνον διατελέουσιν.
6.39. Convulsions take place either from repletion or depletion; and so it is with hiccup.
6.39. 39. Σσπασμοὶ γίνονται, ἢ ὑπὸ πληρώσιος, ἢ κενώσιος· οὕτω δὲ καὶ λυγμός.
6.40. When pains, without inflammation, occur about the hypochondria, in such cases, fever supervening removes the pain.
6.40. 40. Ὁκόσοισι περὶ τὸ ὑποχόνδριον πόνοι γίνονται ἄτερ φλεγμοῆς, τουτέοισι πυρετὸς ἐπιγενόμενος λύει τὸν πόνον.
6.41. When pus formed anywhere in the body does not point, this is owing to the thickness of the part.
6.41. 41. Ὁκόσοισι διάπυόν τι ἐὸν ἐν τῷ σώματι μὴ διασημαίνει, τουτέοισι διὰ παχύτητα τοῦ τόπου οὐ διασημαίνει.
6.42. In cases of jaundice, it is a bad symptom when the liver becomes indurated.
6.42. 42. ἐν τοῖσιν ἰκτερικοῖσι τὸ ἧπαρ σκληρὸν γενέσθαι, πονηρόν.
6.43. When persons having large spleens are seized with dysentery, and if the dysentery pass into a chronic state, either dropsy or lientery supervenes, and they die.
6.43. 43. ὁκόσοι σπληνώδεες ὑπὸ δυσεντερίης ἁλίσκονται, τουτέοισιν, ἐπιγενομένης μακρῆς τῆς δυσεντερίης, ὕδρωψ ἐπιγίνεται, ἢ λειεντερίη, καὶ ἀπόλλυνται.
6.44. When ileus comes on in a case of strangury, they prove fatal in seven days, unless, fever supervening, there be a copious discharge of urine.
6.44. 44. Ὁκόσοισιν ἐκ στραγγουρίης εἰλεοὶ γίνονται, ἐν ἑπτὰ ἡμέρῃσιν ἀπόλλυνται, ἢν μὴ, πυρετοῦ ἐπιγενομένου, ἅλις τὸ οὖρον ῥυῇ.
6.45. When ulcers continue open for a year or upward, there must necessarily be exfoliation of bone, and the cicatrices are hollow.
6.45. 45. ἕλκεα ὁκόσα ἐνιαύσια γίνεται, ἢ μακρότερον χρόνον ἴσχει, ἀνάγκη ὀστέον ἀφίστασθαι, καὶ τὰς οὐλὰς κοίλας γίνεσθαι.
6.46. Such persons as become hump-backed from asthma or cough before puberty, die.
6.46. 46. ὁκόσοι ὑβοὶ ἐξ ἄσθματος ἢ βηχὸς γίνονται πρὸ τῆς ἥβης, ἀπόλλυνται.
6.47. Persons who are benefited by venesection or purging, should be bled or purged in spring.
6.47. 47. Ὁκόσοισι φλεβοτομίη ἢ φαρμακείη ξυμφέρει, τουτέους προσῆκον τοῦ ἦρος φλεβοτομεῖν, ἢ φαρμακεύειν.
6.48. In enlargement of the spleen, it is a good symptom when dysentery comes on.
6.48. 48. τοῖσι σπληνώδεσι δυσεντερίη ἐπιγενομένη, ἀγαθόν.
6.49. In gouty affections, the inflammation subsides in the course of forty days.
6.49. 49. ὁκόσα ποδαγρικὰ νουσήματα γίνεται, ταῦτα ἀποφλεγμήναντα ἐν τεσσαράκοντα ἡμέρῃσιν ἀποκαθίσταται.
6.50. When the brain is severely wounded, fever and vomiting of bile necessarily supervene.
6.50. 50. Ὁκόσοισιν ἂν ὁ ἐγκέφαλος διακοπῇ, τουτέοισιν ἀνάγκη πυρετὸν καὶ χολῆς ἔμετον ἐπιγίνεσθαι.
6.51. When persons in good health are suddenly seized with pains in the head, and straightway are laid down speechless, and breathe with stertor, they die in seven days, unless fever come on.
6.51. 51. Ὁκόσοισιν ὑγιαίνουσιν ὀδύναι γίνονται ἐξαίφνης ἐν τῇ κεφαλῇ, καὶ παραχρῆμα ἄφωνοι κεῖνται, καὶ ῥέγκουσιν, ἀπόλλυνται ἐν ἑπτὰ ἡμέρῃσιν, ἢν μὴ πυρετὸς ἐπιλάβῃ.
6.52. We must attend to the appearances of the eyes in sleep, as presented from below; for if a portion of the white be seen between the closed eyelids, and if this be not connected with diarrhaea or severe purging, it is a very bad and mortal symptom.
6.52. 52. σκοπεῖν δὲ χρὴ καὶ τὰς ὑποφάσιας τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ἐν τοῖσιν ὕπνοισιν· ἢν γάρ τι ὑποφαίνηται, ξυμβαλλομένων τῶν βλεφάρων, τοῦ λευκοῦ μὴ ἐκ διαῤῥοίης ἐόντι ἢ φαρμακοποσίης, φλαῦρον τὸ σημεῖον καὶ θανατῶδες σφόδρα.
6.53. Delirium attended with laughter is less dangerous than delirium attended with a serious mood.
6.53. 53. αἱ παραφροσύναι αἱ μὲν μετὰ γέλωτος γινόμεναι, ἀσφαλέστεραι· αἱ δὲ μετὰ σπουδῆς, ἐπισφαλέστεραι.
6.54. In acute diseases, complicated with fever, a moaning respiration is bad.
6.54. 54. ἐν τοῖσιν ὀξέσι πάθεσι τοῖσι μετὰ πυρετοῦ αἱ κλαυθμώδεες ἀναπνοαὶ, κακαί.
6.55. For the most part, gouty affections rankle in spring and in autumn.
6.55. 55. τὰ ποδαγρικὰ τοῦ ἦρος καὶ τοῦ φθινοπώρου κινέεται ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πουλύ.
6.56. In melancholic affections, determinations of the humor which occasions them produce the following diseases; either apoplexy of the whole body, or convulsion, or madness, or blindness.
6.56. 56. τοῖσι μελαγχολικοῖσι νουσήμασιν ἐς τάδε ἐπικίνδυνοι αἱ ἀποσκήψιες· ἢ ἀπόπληξιν τοῦ σώματος, ἢ σπασμὸν, ἢ μανίην, ἢ τύφλωσιν σημαίνουσιν.
6.57. Persons are most subject to apoplexy between the ages of forty and sixty.
6.57. 57. ἀπόπληκτοι δὲ μάλιστα γίνονται ἡλικίῃ τῇ ἀπὸ τεσσαράκοντα ἐτέων ἄχρις ἑξήκοντα.
6.58. If the omentum protrude, it necessarily mortifies and drops off.
6.58. 58. ἢν ἐπίπλοον ἐκπέσῃ, ἀνάγκη ἀποσαπῆναι.
6.59. In chronic diseases of the hip-joint, if the bone protrude and return again into its socket, there is mucosity in the place.
6.59. 59. Ὁκόσοισιν ὑπὸ ἰσχιάδος ἐνοχλουμένοισιν ἐξίσταται τὸ ἰσχίον, καὶ πάλιν ἐμπίπτει, τουτέοισι μύξαι ἐπιγίνονται.
6.60. In persons affected with chronic disease of the hip-joint, if the bone protrude from its socket, the limb becomes wasted and maimed, unless the part be cauterized.
6.60. 60. Ὁκόσοισιν ὑπὸ ἰσχιάδος ἐνοχλουμένοισι χρονίης τὸ ἰσχίον ἐξίσταται, τουτέοισι τήκεται τὸ σκέλος, καὶ χωλοῦνται, ἢν μὴ καυθέωσιν.ΤΜΗΜΛ ΕΒΔΟΜΟΝ.
7.1. In acute diseases, coldness of the extremities is bad.
7.1. 1. ἐν τοῖσιν ὀξέσι νουσήμασι ψύξις ἀκρωτηρίων, κακόν.
7.2. Livid flesh on a diseased bone is bad.
7.2. 2. ἐπὶ ὀστέῳ νοσέοντι σὰρξ πελιδνὴ, κακόν.
7.3. Hiccup and redness of the eyes, when they supervene on vomiting, are bad.
7.3. 3. ἐπὶ ἐμέτῳ λὺγξ καὶ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἐρυθροὶ, κακόν.
7.4. A chill supervening on a sweat is not good.
7.4. 4. ἐπὶ ἱδρῶτι φρίκη, οὐ χρηστόν.
7.5. Dysentery, or dropsy, or ecstacy coming on madness is good.
7.5. 5. ἐπὶ μανίῃ δυσεντερίη, ἢ ὕδρωψ, ἢ ἔκστασις, ἀγαθόν.
7.6. In a very protracted disease, loss of appetite and unmixed discharges from the bowels are bad symptoms.
7.6. 6. ἐν νούσῳ πολυχρονίῃ ἀσιτίη καὶ ἄκρητοι ὑποχωρήσιες, κακόν.
7.7. A rigor and delirium from excessive drinking are bad.
7.7. 7. ἐκ πολυποσίης ῥῖγος καὶ παραφροσύνη, κακόν.
7.8. From the rupture of an internal abscess, prostration of strength, vomiting, and deliquium animi result.
7.8. 8. ἐπὶ φύματος ἔσω ῥήξει ἔκλυσις, ἔμετος, καὶ λειποψυχίη γίνεται.
7.9. Delirium or convulsion from a flow of blood is bad.
7.9. 9. ἐπὶ αἵματος ῥύσει παραφροσύνη ἢ σπασμὸς, κακόν.
7.10. Vomiting, or hiccup, or convulsion, or delirium, in ileus, is bad.
7.10. 10. ἐπὶ εἰλεῷ ἔμετος, ἢ λὺγξ, ἢ σπασμὸς, ἢ παραφροσύνη, κακόν 11.
7.11. Pneumonia coming on pleurisy is bad.
7.11. ἐπὶ πλευρίτιδι περιπλευμονίη, κακόν.
7.12. Phrenitis along with pneumonia is bad.
7.12. 12. ἐπὶ περιπλευμονίῃ φρενῖτις, κακόν.
7.13. Convulsion or tetanus, coming upon severe burning, is bad.
7.13. 13. ἐπὶ καύμασιν ἰσχυροῖσι σπασμὸς ἢ τέτανος, κακόν.
7.14. Stupor or delirium from a blow on the head is bad.
7.14. 14. ἐπὶ πληγῇ ἐς τὴν κεφαλὴν ἔκπληξις ἢ παραφροσύνη, κακόν.
7.15. From a spitting of blood there is a spitting of pus.
7.15. 15. ἐπὶ αἵματος πτύσει, πύου πτύσις.
7.16. From spitting of pus arise phthisis and a flux; and when the sputa are stopped, they die.
7.16. 16. ἐπὶ πύου πτύσει, φθίσις καὶ ῥύσις· ἐπὴν δὲ τὸ σίελον ἴσχηται, ἀποθνήσκουσιν.
7.17. Hiccup in inflammation of the liver bad.
7.17. 17. ἐπὶ φλεγμονῇ τοῦ ἥπατος λὺγξ, κακόν.
Convulsion or delirium supervening upon insomnolency is bad.
ἐπὶ ἀγρυπνίῃ σπασμὸς ἢ παραφροσύνη, κακόν.18b.
Trembling upon lethargus is bad.
Ἐπὶ ληθάργῳ τρόμος, κακόν.19.
Erysipelas upon exposure of a bone (is bad?).
ἐπὶ ὀστέου ψιλώσει, ἐρυσίπελας.20.
Mortification or suppuration upon erysipelas is bad.
ἐπὶ ἐρυσιπέλατι σηπεδὼν ἢ ἐκπύησις.21.
Hemorrhage upon a strong pulsation in wounds is bad.
ἐπὶ ἰσχυρῷ σφυγμῷ ἐν τοῖσιν ἕλκεσιν, αἱμοῤῥαγίη.22.
Suppuration upon a protracted pain of the parts about the bowels is bad.
ἐπὶ ὀδύνῃ πολυχρονίῳ τῶν περὶ τὴν κοιλίην, ἐκπύησις.23.
Dysentery upon unmixed alvine discharges is bad.
ἐπὶ ἀκρήτῳ ὑποχωρήσει, δυσεντερίη.24.ἐπὶ ὀστέου διακοπῇ, παραφροσύνη, ἢν κενεὸν λάβῃ25.
Delirium upon division of the cranium, if it penetrate into the cavity of the head, is bad.
ἐκ φαρμακοποσίης σπασμὸς, θανατῶδες.26.
Convulsion upon severe purging is mortal.
ἐπὶ ὀδύνῃ ἰσχυρῇ τῶν περὶ τὴν κοιλίην, ἀκρωτηρίων ψύξις, κακόν.27.
Upon severe pain of the parts about the bowels, coldness of the extremities coming on is bad.
ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσῃ τεινεσμὸς ἐπιγενόμενος ἐκτρῶσαι ποιέει.28.
Tenesmus coming on in a case of pregnancy causes abortion. Whatever piece of bone, cartilage, or nerve (tendon?)
ὅ τι ἂν ὀστέον, ἢ χόνδρος, ἢ νεῦρον ἀποκοπῇ ἐν τῷ σώματι, οὔτε αὔξεται, οὔτε συμφύεται.29.
is cut off, it neither grows nor unites. When strong diarrhoea supervenes in a case of leucophlegmatia, it removes the disease.
ἢν ὑπὸ λευκοῦ φλέγματος ἐχομένῳ διάῤῥοια ἐπιγένηται ἰσχυρὴ, λύει τὴν νοῦσον.30.
In those cases in which frothy discharges occur in diarrhoea there are defluxions from the head.
Ὁκόσοισιν ἀφρώδεα τὰ διαχωρήματα ἐν τῇσι διαῤῥοίῃσι, τουτέοισιν ἀπὸ τῆς κεφαλῆς ταῦτα ἀποκαταῤῥέει.31.
When there is a farinaceous sediment in the urine during fever, it indicates a protracted illness.
Ὁκόσοισι πυρέσσουσιν ἐν τοῖσιν οὔροισι κριμνώδεες αἱ ὑποστάσιες γίνονται, μακρὴν τὴν ἀῤῥωστίην σημαίνουσιν.32.
In those cases in which the urine is thin at first, and the sediments become bilious, an acute disease is indicated.
Ὁκόσοισι δὲ χολώδεες αἱ ὑποστάσιες, ἄνωθεν δὲ λεπταὶ, ὀξείην τὴν ἀῤῥωστίην σημαίνουσιν.33.
In those cases in which the urine becomes divided there is great disorder in the body.
Ὁκόσοισι δὲ διεστηκότα τὰ οὖρα γίνεται, τουτέοισι ταραχὴ ἰσχυρὴ ἐν τῷ σώματί ἐστιν.34.
When bubbles settle on the surface of the urine, they indicate disease of the kidneys, and that the complaint will be protracted.
Ὁκόσοισι δὲ ἐπὶ τοῖσιν οὔροισιν ἐφίστανται πομφόλυγες, νεφριτικὰ σημαίνουσι, καὶ μακρὴν τὴν ἀῤῥωστίην ἔσεσθαι.35.
When the scum on the surface is fatty and copious, it indicates acute diseases of the kidneys.
Ὁκόσοισι δὲ λιπαρὴ ἡ ἐπίστασις καὶ ἀθρόη, τουτέοισι νεφριτικὰ καὶ ὀξέα σημαίνει.36.
Whenever the aforementioned symptoms occur in nephritic diseases, and along with them acute pains about the muscles of the back, provided these be seated about the external parts, you may expect that there will be an abscess; but if the pains be rather about the internal parts, you may also rather expect that the abscess will be seated internally.
Ὁκόσοισι δὲ νεφριτικοῖσιν ἐοῦσι τὰ προειρημένα συμβαίνει σημήϊα, πόνοι τε ὀξέες περὶ τοὺς μύας τοὺς ῥαχιαίους γίνονται, ἢν μὲν περὶ τοὺς ἔξω τόπους γίνωνται, ἀπόστημα προσδέχου ἐσόμενον ἔξω· ἢν δὲ μᾶλλον οἱ πόνοι πρὸς τοὺς ἔσω τόπους γίνωνται, καὶ τὸ ἀπόστημα προσδέχου ἐσόμενον μᾶλλον ἔσω.37.
Haematemesis, without fever, does not prove fatal, but with fever it is bad; it is to be treated with refrigerant and styptic things. Defluxions into the cavity of the chest suppurate in twenty days.
ὁκόσοι αἷμα ἐμέουσιν, ἢν μὲν ἄνευ πυρετοῦ, σωτήριον· ἢν δὲ ξὺν πυρετῷ, κακόν· θεραπεύειν δὲ τοῖσι ψυκτικοῖσι καὶ τοῖσι στυπτικοῖσιν.38.
When a patient passes blood and clots, and is seized with strangury and pain in the perineum and pubes, disease about the bladder is indicated.
κατάῤῥοοι οἱ ἐς τὴν ἄνω κοιλίην ἐκπυέονται ἐν ἡμέρησιν εἴκοσιν.39.
If the tongue suddenly lose its powers, or a part of the body become apoplectic, the affection is of a melancholic nature.
ἢν οὐρέῃ αἷμα καὶ θρόμβους, καὶ στραγγουρίη ἔχῃ, καὶ ὀδύνη ἐμπίπτῃ ἐς τὸν περίνεον καὶ τὸν κτένα, τὰ περὶ τὴν κύστιν νοσέειν σημαίνει.40.
In hypercatharsis, of old persons, hiccup supervening is not a good symptom.
ἢν ἡ γλῶσσα ἐξαίφνης ἀκρατὴς γένηται, ἢ ἀπόπληκτόν τι τοῦ σώματος, μελαγχολικὸν τὸ τοιοῦτο γίνεται.41.
In a fever, is not of a bilious nature, a copious allusion of hot water upon the head removes the fever.
ἢν, ὑπερκαθαιρομένων τῶν πρεσβυτέρων, λὺγξ ἐπιγένηται, οὐκ ἀγαθόν42.
A woman does not become ambidexterous. When empyema is treated either by the cautery or incision, if pure and white pus flow from the wound, the patients recover;
ἢν πυρετὸς μὴ ἀπὸ χολῆς ἔχῃ, ὕδατος πολλοῦ καὶ θερμοῦ καταχεομένου κατὰ τῆς κεφαλῆς, λύσις τοῦ πυρετοῦ γίνεται.43.γυνὴ ἀμφιδέξιος οὐ γίνεται.44.
but if mixed with blood, slimy and fetid, they die. When abscess of the liver is treated by the cautery or incision, if the pus which is discharged be pure and white, the patients recover, (for in this case it is situated in the coats of the liver;)
ὁκόσοι ἔμπυοι καίονται ἢ τέμνονται, ἢν μὲν τὸ πῦον καθαρὸν ῥυῇ καὶ λευκὸν, περιγίνονται· ἢν δὲ ὕφαιμον καὶ βορβορῶδες καὶ δυσῶδες, ἀπόλλυνται45.
but if it resemble the lees of oil as it flows, they die. Pains of the eyes are removed by drinking undiluted wine, plenteous bathing with hot water, and venesection.
ὁκόσοι τὸ ἧπαρ διάπυον καίονται ἢ τέμνονται, ἢν μὲν τὸ πῦον καθαρὸν ῥυῇ καὶ λευκὸν, περιγίγνονται (ἐν χιτῶνι γὰρ τὸ πῦον τουτέοισίν ἐστιν)· ἢν δὲ οἷον ἀμόργη ῥυῇ, ἀπόλλυνται.46.
If a dropsical patient be seized with hiccup the case is hopeless.
ὀδύνας ὀφθαλμῶν, ἄκρητον ποτίσας καὶ λούσας πολλῷ θερμῷ, φλεβοτόμει.47.Ὑδρωπιῶντα ἢν βὴξ ἔχῃ, ἀνέλπιστός ἐστιν.48.
Strangury and dysuria are cured by drinking pure wine, and venesection; open the vein on the inside.
στραγγουρίην καὶ δυσουρίην θώρηξις καὶ φλεβοτομίη λύει· τάμνειν δὲ τὰς ἔσω.49.
It is a good sign when swelling and redness on the breast seize a person very ill of quinsy, for in this case the disease is diverted outwardly.
ὑπὸ κυνάγχης ἐχομένῳ οἴδημα καὶ ἐρύθημα ἐν τῷ στήθει ἐπιγενόμενον, ἀγαθόν· ἔξω γὰρ τρέπεται τὸ νούσημα.50.
When the brain is attacked with sphacelus, the patients die in three days; or if they escape these, they recover.
Ὁκόσοισιν ἂν σφακελισθῇ ὁ ἐγκέφαλος, ἐν τρισὶν ἡμέρῃσιν ἀπόλλυνται· ἢν δὲ ταύτας διαφύγωσιν, ὑγιέες γίνονται.51.
Sneezing arises from the head, owing to the brain being heated, or the cavity (ventricle) in the head being filled with humors; the air confined in it then is discharged, and makes a noise, because it comes through a narrow passage.
πταρμὸς γίνεται ἐκ τῆς κεφαλῆς, διαθερμαινομένου τοῦ ἐγκεφάλου, ἢ διυγραινομένου τοῦ ἐν τῇ κεφαλῇ κενεοῦ· ὑπερχέεται οὖν ὁ ἀὴρ ὁ ἐνεὼν, ψοφέει δὲ, ὅτι διὰ στενοῦ ἡ διέξοδος αὐτοῦ ἐστιν52.
Fever supervening on painful affections of the liver removes the pain.
ὁκόσοι ἧπαρ περιωδυνέουσι, τουτέοισι πυρετὸς ἐπιγενόμενος λύει τὴν ὀδύνην.53.
Those persons to whom it is beneficial to have blood taken from their veins, should have it done in spring.
Ὁκόσοισι ξυμφέρει αἷμα ἀφαιρέεσθαι ἀπὸ τῶν φλεβῶν, τουτέοισι ξυμφέρει ἦρος φλεβοτομέεσθαι.54.
In those cases where phlegm is collected between the diaphragm and the stomach, and occasions pain, as not finding a passage into either of the cavities, the disease will be carried off if the phlegm be diverted to the bladder by the veins.
Ὁκόσοισι μεταξὺ τῶν φρενῶν καὶ τῆς γαστρὸς φλέγμα ἀποκλείεται, καὶ ὀδύνην παρέχει, οὐκ ἔχον διέξοδον ἐς οὐδετέρην τῶν κοιλιῶν, τουτέοισι, κατὰ τὰς φλέβας ἐς τὴν κύστιν τραπέντος τοῦ φλέγματος, λύσις γίνεται τῆς νούσου.55.
When the liver is filled with water and bursts into the epiploon, in this case the belly is filled with water and the patient dies. Anxiety, yawning, rigor,-wine drunk with an equal proportion of water, removes these complaints.
Ὁκόσοισι δʼ ἂν τὸ ἧπαρ ὕδατος πλησθὲν ἐς τὸ ἐπίπλοον ῥαγῇ, τουτέοισιν ἡ κοιλίη ὕδατος ἐμπίπλαται, καὶ ἀποθνήσκουσιν.56.Ἀλύκη, χάσμη, φρίκη, οἶνος ἴσος ἴσῳ πινόμενος λύει.57.
When tubercles (phymata) form in the urethra, if they suppurate and burst, the pain is carried off.
Ὁκόσοισιν ἐν τῇ οὐρήθρῃ φύματα γίνεται, τουτέοισι, διαπυήσαντος καὶ ἐκραγέντος, λύεται ὁ πόνος58.
In cases of concussion of the brain produced by any cause, the patients necessarily lose their speech.
Ὁκόσοισιν ἂν ὁ ἐγκέφαλος σεισθῇ ὑπό τινος προφάσιος, ἀνάγκη ἀφώνους γίνεσθαι παραχρῆμα.60.
In a person affected with fever, when there is no swelling in the fauces, should suffocation suddenly come on, and the patient not be able to swallow, except with difficulty, it is a mortal symptom.
Τοὶσι σώμασι τοῖσιν ὑγρὰς τὰς σάρκας ἔχουσι δεῖ λιμὸν ἐμποιέειν· λιμὸς γὰρ ξηραίνει τὰ σώματα.59.
In the case of a person oppressed by fever, if the neck be turned aside, and the patient cannot swallow, while there is no swelling in the neck, it is a mortal sign.
ἢν ὑπὸ πυρετοῦ ἐχομένῳ, οἰδήματος μὴ ἐόντος ἐν τῇ φάρυγγι, πνὶξ ἐξαίφνης ἐπιγένηται, καὶ καταπίνειν μὴ δύνηται, ἀλλʼ ἢ μόλις, θανάσιμον.59 bis.
Fasting should be prescribed the those persons who have humid flesh; for fasting dries bodies.
Ἢνὑπὸ πυρετοῦ ἐχομένῳ ὁ τράχηλος ἐπιστραφῇ, καὶ καταπίνειν μὴ δύνηται, οἰδήματος μὴ ἐόντος ἐν τῷ τραχήλῳ, θανάσιμον.61.
When there are changes in the whole body, and the body becomes sometimes cold and sometimes hot, and the color changes, a protracted disease is indicated.
ὅκου ἂν ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ σώματι μεταβολαὶ, καὶ τὸ σῶμα καταψύχηται, καὶ πάλιν θερμαίνηται, ἢ χρῶμα ἕτερον ἐξ ἑτέρου μεταβάλλῃ, μῆκος νούσου σημαίνει.62.
A copious sweat, hot or cold, constantly flowing, indicates a superabundance of humidity; we must evacuate then, in a strong person upward, and in a weak, downward.
ἱδρὼς πουλὺς, θερμὸς ἢ ψυχρὸς, ῥέων αἰεὶ, σημαίνει ἔχειν πλησμονὴν ὑγροῦ· ἀπάγειν οὖν χρὴ τῷ μὲν ἰσχυρῷ ἄνωθεν, τῷ δὲ ἀσθενεῖ κάτωθεν.63.
Fevers, not of the intermittent type, if they become exacerbated every third day are dangerous; but if they intermit in any form whatever, this shows that they are not dangerous.
οἱ πυρετοὶ οἱ μὴ διαλείποντες, ἢν ἰσχυρότεροι διὰ τρίτης γίνωνται, ἐπικίνδυνοι· ὅτῳ δʼ ἂν τρόπῳ διαλείπωσι, σημαίνει ὅτι ἀκίνδυνοι.64.
In cases of protracted fever, either chronic abscesses or pains in the joints come on.
Ὁκόσοισι πυρετοὶ μακροὶ, τουτέοισιν ἢ φύματα, ἢ ἐς τὰ ἄρθρα πόνοι ἐγγίνονται.65.
When chronic abscesses (phymata) or pains in the joints take place after fevers, the patients are using too much food.
Ὁκόσοισι φύματα ἢ ἐς τὰ ἄρθρα πόνοι ἐκ πυρετῶν γίνονται, οὗτοι σιτίοισι πλείοσι χρέονται.66.
If one give to a person in fever the same food which is given to a person in good health, what is strength to the one is disease to the other.
ἤν τις πυρέσσοντι τροφὴν διδῷ, ἣν ὑγιεῖ, τῷ μὲν ὑγιαίνοντι ἰσχὺς, τῷ δὲ κάμνοντι νοῦσος.67.
We must look to the urinary evacuations, whether they resemble those of persons in health; if not at all so, they are particularly morbid, but if they are like those of healthy persons, they are not at all morbid.
τὰ διὰ τῆς κύστιος διαχωρέοντα ὁρῇν δεῖ, εἰ οἷα τοῖς ὑγιαίνουσιν ὑποχωρέεται· τὰ ἥκιστα οὖν ὅμοια τουτέοισι, ταῦτα νοσωδέστερα, τὰ δʼ ὅμοια τοῖσιν ὑγιαίνουσιν, ἥκιστα νοσερά.68.
When the dejections are allowed to stand and not shaken, and a sediment is formed like scrapings (of the bowels), in such a case it is proper to purge the bowels;
καὶ οἷσι τὰ ὑποχωρήματα, ἢν ἐάσῃς στῆναι καὶ μὴ κινήσῃς, ὑφίσταται οἱονεὶ ξύσματα, τουτέοισι ξυμφέρει ὑποκαθῆραι τὴν κοιλίην· ἢν δὲ μὴ καθαρὴν ποιήσας διδῷς τὰ ῥοφήματα, ὁκόσῳ ἂν κλείω διδῷς, μᾶλλον βλάψεις.69.
and if you give ptisans before purging, the more you give the more harm you will do. Crude dejections are the product of black bile;
Ὁκόσοισιν ἂν κάτω ὠμὰ διαχωρέῃ, ἀπὸ χολῆς μελαίνης ἐστὶν, ἢν πλείονα, πλείονος, ἢν ἐλάσσονα, ἐλάσσονος.70.
if abundant, of more copious, and if deficient, of less copious collections of it. The sputa in fevers, not of an intermittent type, which are livid, streaked with blood, and fetid, are all bad, it is favorable when this evacuation, like the urinary and alvine, passes freely;
αἱ ἀποχρέμψιες αἱ ἐν τοῖσι πυρετοῖσι τοῖσι μὴ διαλείπουσι, πελιδναὶ καὶ αἱματώδεες καὶ δυσώδεες, πᾶσαι κακαί· ἀποχωρέουσαι δὲ καλῶς, ἀγαθαὶ, καὶ κατὰ κοιλίην καὶ κύστιν· καὶ ὅκου ἄν τι ἀποχωρέον στῇ μὴ κεκαθαρμένῳ, κακόν.71.
and whenever any discharge is suppressed and not purged off it is bad. When you wish to purge the body, you must bring it into a state favorable to evacuations; and if you wish to dispose it to evacuations upward, you must bind the belly;
τὰ σώματα χρὴ, ὅκου τις βούλεται καθαίρεσθαι, εὔροα ποιέειν· κἢν μὲν ἄνω βούλῃ εὔροα ποιέειν, στῆσαι τὴν κοιλίην· ἢν δὲ κάτω εὔροα ποιέειν, ὑγρῆναι τὴν κοιλίην.72.
and if you wish to dispose it to evacuations downward, you must moisten the belly.
ὕπνος, ἀγρυπνίη, ἀμφότερα μᾶλλον τοῦ μετρίου γινόμενα, νοῦσος.73.
Sleep and watchfulness, both of them, when immoderate, constitute disease.
ἐν τοῖσι μὴ διαλείπουσι πυρετοῖσιν, ἢν τὰ μὲν ἔξω ψυχρὰ ᾖ, τὰ δὲ ἔσω καίηται, καὶ πυρετὸς ἔχῃ, θανάσιμον.74.
In fevers which do not intermit, if the external parts be cold, and the internal burning hot, and fever prevail, it is a mortal sign.
ἐν μὴ διαλείποντι πυρετῷ, ἢν χεῖλος, ἢ ῥὶς, ἢ ὀφθαλμὸς διαστραφῇ, ἢν μὴ βλέπῃ, ἢν μὴ ἀκούῃ, ἤδη ἀσθενὴς ἐὼν, ὅ τι ἂν ᾖ τουτέων τῶν σημείων, θανάσιμον.75.
In a fever which does not intermit, if a lip, the nose, or an eye be distorted, if the patient lose his sense of sight or of hearing, while now in a weak state,-whatever of these symptoms occurs it is mortal.
ἐπὶ λευκῷ φλέγματι ὕδρωψ ἐπιγίνεται.76.ἐπὶ διαῤῥοίῃ δυσεντερίη.77.ἐπὶ δυσεντερίῃ λειεντερίη.78.ἐπὶ σφακέλῳ ἀπόστασις ὀστέου.79 et 80.
Upon leucophlegmatia dropsy supervenes. Upon diarrhoea dysentery. Upon dysentery lientery. Upon sphacelus exfoliation of the bone. Upon vomiting of blood consumption, and a purging of pus upward;
ἐπὶ αἵματος ἐμέτῳ φθορὴ, καὶ πύου κάθαρσις ἄνω· ἐπὶ φθορῇ ῥεῦμα ἐκ τῆς κεφαλῆς· ἐπὶ ῥεύματι διάῤῥοια· ἐπὶ διαῤῥοίῃ σχέσις τῆς ἄνω καθάρσιος· ἐπὶ τῇ σχέσει θάνατος.81.
upon consumption a defluxion from the head; upon a defluxion diarrhoea; upon diarrhoea a stoppage of the purging upward; upon the stoppage of it death. In the discharges by the bladder, the belly, and the flesh (the skin?) if the body has departed slightly from its natural condition, the disease is slight;
ὁκοῖα καὶ ἐν τοῖσι κατὰ τὴν κύστιν, καὶ τοῖσι κατὰ τὴν κοιλίην ὑποχωρήμασι, καὶ ἐν τοῖσι κατὰ τὰς σάρκας, καὶ ἤν που ἄλλῃ τῆς φύσιος ἐκβαίνῃ τὸ σῶμα, ἢν ὀλίγον, ὀλίγη ἡ νοῦσοξ γίνεται, ἢν πουλὺ, πολλὴ, ἢν πάνυ πουλὺ, θανάσιμον τὸ τοιοῦτον.82.
if much, it is great; if very much, it is mortal. Persons above forty years of age who are affected with frenzy, do not readily recover; the danger is less when the disease is cognate to the constitution and age.
ὁκόσοι ὑπὲρ τὰ τεσσαράκοντα ἔτεα φρενιτικοὶ γίνονται, οὐ πάνυ τι ὑγιάζονται· ἧσσον γὰρ κινδυνεύουσιν, οἷσιν ἂν οἰκείη τῆς φύσιος καὶ τῆς ἡλικίης ἡ νοῦσος ᾖ.83.
In whatever diseases the eyes weep voluntarily, it is a good symptom, but when involuntarily, it is a bad.
Ὁκόσοισιν ἐν τῇσιν ἀῤῥωστίῃσιν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ κατὰ προαίρεσιν δακρύουσιν, ἀγαθόν· ὁκόσοισι δὲ ἄνευ προαιρέσιος, κακόν.84.
When in quartan fevers blood flows from the nostrils it is a bad symptom.
Ὁκόσοισιν ἐν τοῖσι πυρετοῖσι τεταρταίοισιν ἐοῦσιν αἷμα ἐκ τῶν ῥινῶν ῥυῇ, πονηρόν.85.
Sweats are dangerous when they do not occur on critical days, when they are strong, and quickly forced out of the forehead, either in the form of drops or in streams, and if excessively cold and copious; for such a sweat must proceed from violence, excess of pain, and prolonged squeezing (affliction?). In a chronic disease an excessive flux from the bowels is bad.
ἱδρῶτες ἐπικίνδυνοι ἐν τῇσι κρισίμοισιν ἡμέρῃσι μὴ γινόμενοι, σφοδροί τε καὶ ταχέως ὠθούμενοι ἐκ τοῦ μετώπου, ὥσπερ σταλαγμοὶ καὶ κρουνοὶ, καὶ ψυχροὶ σφόδρα καὶ πολλοί· ἀνάγκη γὰρ τὸν τοιοῦτον ἱδρῶτα πορεύεσθαι μετὰ βίης, καὶ πόνου ὑπερβολῆς, καὶ ἐκθλίψιος πολυχρονίου.86.
Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron (the knife?)
ἐπὶ χρονίῳ νουσήματι κοιλίης καταφορὴ, κακόν.87.
cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.
ὁκόσα φάρμακα οὐκ ἰῆται, σίδηρος ἰῆται· ὅσα σίδηρος οὐκ ἰῆται, πῦρ ἰῆται· ὅσα δὲ πῦρ οὐκ ἰῆται, ταῦτα χρὴ νομίζειν ἀνίατα.