Praxis medicinæ, or, the physicians practice vvherein are contained inward diseases from the head to the foote: explayning the nature of each disease, with the part affected; and also the signes, causes, and prognostiques, and likewise what temperature of the ayre is most requisite for the patients abode, with direction for the diet he ought to obserue, together with experimentall cures for euery disease. ... Written by that famous and worthy physician, VValter Bruel.

Prognostiques

If bleeding at the nose haue continued long, swounding, weeaknes, and too much cooling of the liuer, Cachexia, or the dropsy is to be feared. Bleeding at the nose with coldnes of the outward parts, is mortall; if the patient by bleeding bee eased of paine, it is a good signe. If such as be newly taken with a Feauer, bleed on the fourth day it is suspicious; if it come after headaches in the time of Crisis in Feauers, it is good; and if it be not immoderate, the Feauer shall need no other cure. If in bleeding, either doting or conuulsion happen, this is a very bad signe: for a conuulsion by empti∣nes is deadly: if the nose bleed in suppression of tearmes, it may very well be permitted to bleed awhile, for nature being hindered, doth cast them to the vpper parts, which otherwise would haue offended the lungs and liuer. All superfluous bleeding, in what part soeuer, doth offend the liuer. From whence Cachexia, swounding, and the dropsy, sometimes death it selfe seizeth on the patient.