The eight sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes review'd and rendred into English, according to the translation of Anutius Foesius ; digested into an exact and methodical form and divided into several convenient distinctions, and every distinction into several chapters, wherein every aphorisme is reduced to its proper subject, whereby the reader may find out any desired aphorisme without the tedious revolution of the whole work ; wherein also many aphorismes are significantly interpreted which were neglected in the former translation.

Distinction the first, containing all the Aphorismes Diagno∣stick and Prognostick. (Book 1)

THis small Book of Aphorismes of Hippo∣crates, doth fundamentally instruct those who shall throughly learn and observe them, with all the grounds belonging unto Physick; and whereas the Invention and scope of a Physician may be redived (which otherwise would be infinite) unto two heads, that is, Preservative and Cura∣tive; to preserve the body of man in its integrity of healths: and secondly, being swerv'd from that to remove all cause; which shall or may cause any preternatural affects or distemper. Therefore for the more ease and and perspecuity to the Reader, the Aphorismes which respect both those intentions are distinctly and severally proposed un∣der

their proper heads; and being it is necessary that the Physician should rightly understand and judge by the particular Signs before he undertake or administer any Physick for the Cure, whether the affects do refuse or perform their natural Actions, therefore in the first place such inform∣ing Aphorismes are set down, and they are these which follow.

CHAP. I.

The Proem.

LIfe is short, Art long, Occasion sudden and dangerous, Experience deceitful, and Judgment difficult. Neither is it sufficient that the Physician be ready to act what is necessary to be done by him, but the Sick, and the Attendants and all outward necessaries must be lightly pre∣pared and sitted for the businesse.

Sect. 2. Aph. 4.

Neither fulnesse nor emptinesse, nor any other thing, if it exceed a mean in nature, is good.

Sect. 2. Aph. 5.

Wearyishness, or a lazy indisposition arising of its own accord, is the forerunner of a Di∣sease.

Sect. 2. Aph. 6.

They who are grieved in any part of their body, and are scarce sensible of their grief, have their animal faculty distempered.

Sect. 2. Aph. 26.

It is better that a Feaver succeed a Convul∣sion, than a Convulsion a Feaver.

Sect. 2. Aph. 27.

Sudden intermissions or alleviations in Di∣seases are not much to be trusted unto, which happen without some reasons, neither ought we much to fear such evils which happen without a sensible cause. For many of those things are uncertain, neither are they wont to continue long.

Sect. 2. Aph. 28.

It is an ill Sign when Feaver-sick persons either retain their fulnesse of body, or else are overmuch wasted, and emaciated by the Disease. For the one signifies a prolixity of the Disease; the other, weaknesse of the Patient.

Sect. 2. Aph. 30.

The Symptomes of every Disease are most easie and light about the beginning and ending thereof, but in the state and vigor, most vehe∣ment.

Sect. 2. Aph. 31.

If any man being recovered of a Disease is not profited by his meat taken orderly, it is an ill Sign.

Sect. 2. Aph. 33.

It is a hopeful sign when the Sick continues undisturb'd in mind and body after such things as have been administred unto him. But the con∣trary if contrary things happen.

Sect. 2. Aph 39.

Old men usually are less sick then young men, but such daily Diseases as do happen unto them, do commonly accompany them to their death.

Sect. 2. Aph. 40.

Hoarsenesse and Rhumes in very old men will not be concocted.

Sect. 2. Aph. 42.

A strong Apoplexy is incurable, but a slight one is not easily cured.

Sect. 2. Aph. 44.

Very gross and Corpulent bodies by nature dye sooner then such which are spare and lean.

Sect. 3. Aph. 45.

Young men are chiefly freed from the Fall∣ing Sicknesse by change of Age, Air, and Dyet.

Sect. 3. Aph. 50.

Such things unto which we are accustomed unto by long intervalls of time, although worse, are lesse irksom: and troublesome unto us, then such which are not familiar unto us; wherefore we ought to make a change to those things which are not usual unto us.

Sect. 2. Aph. 53.

They who have their bodies soluble are in a better condition of health, especially while they are young than those whose bodies are hard and costive, but in their old age they live worse, because then their excrements are usually dryed.

Sect. 2. Aph. 54.

A tall Stature of body in Youth is comely and not unseemly, but in Old men it is unservicea∣ble, and worse then a short Stature.

Sect. 2. Aph. 30.

Such intermittent Feavers are hardly to be judged, which return again at the same hour the next day, wherein the intermission was the day before, be it at what hour soever.

Sect. 4. Aph. 43.

If any part of the body were afflicted or trou∣bled before the Disease, the Disease doth con∣firm and determine it self in that part.

Sect. 4. Aph. 36.

Such Sweats which expresse themselves in Feavers, the third, fifth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth, one and twentieth, seven and twentieth, thirtieth, or the four and thirtieth day, are beneficial, because they are Critical; But such as do not begin upon some of those days signifie danger, prolixity of the Disease, and its reversion.

Sect. 4. Aph. 38.

Sweats do declare a Disease in the body.

Sect. 4. Aph. 41.

Much sweat in the time of sleep without some manifest cause arising, doth argue that such bodies do use a more liberal dyet; but if they happen to him which eateth but sparingly, they tell that there is a necessity of Evacuation.

Sect. 4. Aph. 42.

If plenty of Sweat, whether hot or cold always flow, the cold doth signifie a bigger, the hot a lesse Disease.

Sect. 4. Aph. 45.

They who have swellings, or pains about the Junctures after long Feavers, do feed plenti∣fully.

Sect. 4. Aph. 51.

If intermittent Feavers are not dissolved by their first brises at the beginning, they then usually continue long.

Sect. 4. Aph. 52.

Voluntary tears flowing in Feavers or other Diseases produce no inconvenience, but invo∣luntary are more inconvenient.

Sect. 4. Aph. 53.

Those Feavers are most vehement wherein an Edaminis humour caused by the Feavers, grows to the Teeth.

Sect. 4. Aph. 54.

He that hath a drye cough lightly moving and persevering in a burning Feaver, is not much troubled with thirst.

Sect. 4. Aph. 56.

If Sweat happen to one Sick of a Feaver, and the Feaver cease not, it is ill: For the Feaver is prolonged, and much moisture is thereby signi∣fied.

Sect. 4. Aph. 57.

A Feaver succeeding, frees from a Convulsion, or the distension of the Nerves.

Sect. 4. Aph. 58.

A vehement cold or shaking, frees him who is Sick of a burning Feaver.

Sect. 4. Aph. 59.

An exquisite Tertian is judged in seven circuits at the utmost.

Sect. 4. Aph. 60.

Deafnesse occasioned by a Feaver, is taken away by an issue of Blood out of the Nostrills, or a Flux of the Belly.

Sect. 4. Aph. 62.

The Yellow Jaundies coming upon a Feaver, if it appear before the seventh day, is bad.

Sect. 4. Aph. 63.

Such Feavers as have rigors every day, are daily dissolved.

Sect. 4. Aph. 64.

If the Yellow Jaundies come upon a Feaver, the seventh, ninth, eleventh, or fourteenth day, it portends good, unlesse the right Hypochondrium be hard, then it is not good.

Sect. 4. Aph. 68.

Interception of Spirits in a Feaver is bad, for a Convulsion is thereby declared.

Sect. 4. Aph. 80.

If Blood and clots be voided with the Urine, if the party have a Strangury, and the pain fall down into the lower part of the belly and the Perinaeum the parts which appertain to the Bladder are disaffected.

Sect. 4. Aph. 81.

They which voyd Blood, suppurated matter, and small crusts or skales with their Urine, and if an ill smell of the Urine be concomitant, it sig∣nifies exulceration of the bladder.

Sect. 4. Aph. 82.

If a tumor rising upon the Yard turn to suppu∣ration, and break, a dissolution succeeds.

Sect. 4. Aph. 83.

Much Urine voided in the night season signi∣fies but little dejection by Stool.

Sect. 7. Aph. 30.

Ejections and excrements which are frothy voided by Stool descend from the brain.

Sect. 7. Aph. 32.

Urines then at the top with bilious Sediments, signifie an accute Disease.

Sect. 7. Aph. 33.

Variety of Colours in the Urine signifie a ve∣hement perturbation in the whole body.

Sect. 7. Aph 36.

When the aforenamed Signs do happen to those whose Reins are disaffected, and if grief or pain be about the Muscles of the back bone, be∣cause the pains are carried to the external parts, expect the abscess or imposthumation to be out∣ward. But if the pains tend rather to the inward parts, we must expect the imposthumation to be more inward.

Sect. 7. Aph. 37.

Vomiting of Blood without a Feaver is health∣full, but with a Feaver it is evil, and then it is to be cured with such Medicines as have a cool∣ing and a restringent quality.

Sect. 7. Aph. 38.

Distillations falling upon the upper belly within twenty days, turn to suppuration.

Sect. 7. Aph. 40.

If the tongue on a sudden be incontinent, or any part of the Body struck, it signifies Melan∣cholly.

Sect. 7. Aph. 41.

If the Hicket happen to elderly men by im∣moderate purging, it is no good Sign.

Sect. 7. Aph. 49.

If a tumor or rednesse do happen in the breast of him that is Sick of a Squinancy it is a good Sign, for then the Morbifick matter is sent to the external parts.

Sect. 7. Aph. 52.

A Feaver succeeding doth take away a vehe∣ment pain of the Liver.

Sect. 7. Aph. 54.

When Flegm is imparted between the Mid∣riffe, and the Stomach, causing pain, and hath no passage either upward or downward, if that petuitous humour be carried by the veins to the Bladder, the grief thereby is taken away.

Sect. 7. Aph. 56.

Wine allayed with an equal proportion of water doth take away sorrow, yawning, or ex∣treme quaking.

Sect. 7. Aph. 57.

[You have this Aphorisme before in the fourth Section, Aphorisme 82.]

Sect. 7. Aph. 61.

Much Sweat either hot or cold alwayes flow∣ing, signifies plenty of humours in the body, which in a strong body must be drawn away up∣ward, but in a weak one, downward.

Sect. 7. Aph. 63.

Small tumors turning to suppuration or pains in the joynts, do arise in such bodies who have had long Feavers.

Sect. 7. Aph. 64.

They who are troubled with the aforenamed imposthumations or pains of the joynts by Fea∣vers, do use more then ordinary Dyet.

Sect 7. Aph. 65.

Meat exhibited to one sick of a Feaver doth nourish the Disease, but to a healthful body it gives strength.

Sect. 7. Aph. 66.

Respect must be had to those things which are voided by Urine, whether the Sediments re∣semble those of Sound bodies or not; for by how much the more they draw from them, by so much the more they are more significative of Diseases; but the nearer they appear like the Urines of sound bodies, the lesse Diseased they argue the party by whom they are made.

Sect. 7. Aph. 71.

Either sleep or watching exceeding a mean, is a Disease.

CHAP. II. Of Prognosticks. Prognosticks.

THe Diseases, seasons of the year, and the vicissitudes of the circuits being compared together among themselves, whether they are

made every other day or by great intervals of time, do shew the accessions and qualities of Di∣seases. Moreover, the Symptomes also which pre∣sently appear shew the same things, of which con∣dition is spittle in Pluretick bodies; if it appear in the beginning of the Disease, it signifies its brevity; but if it appear later, it argues that the Disease will be long. The Urines also, the Excrements and Sweats, when they appear do give notice whether the Disease will have a hard or easy Crisis, and whether it will be short or long.

Sect. 2. Aph. 5.

[See this Aphorisme in the second Aphorisme in the Diagnosticks.]

Sect 2. Aph. 13.

When a Crisis is intended by nature, the night before the access is tedious and vehement, but the following night usually is more tolera∣ble.

Sect. 2. Aph. 23.

Acute Diseases are terminated by a Crisis within fourteen dayes.

Sect. 2. Aph. 24.

The fourth day is the Index of the seventh, the eighth of another seventh. The eleventh also must be had in consideration, because it is the fourth of another seventh. Again, the Seven∣teenth must be look'd upon, because it is the

fourth from the fourteenth, and the seventh from the eleventh.

Sect. 2. Aph. 27.

[You have have this Aphorisme verbatim in the fifth Aphorisme of the Diagnosticks, to which I refer you.]

Sect. 2. Aph. 28.

[See this in the Diagnosticks, Aphorisme the sixth.]

Sect. 2. Aph. 33.

[This Aphorisme is the same with the ninth Aphorisme of the Diagnosticks.]

Sect. 2. Aph. 44.

[This also you have word for word in the tenth Aphorisme of the Diagnosticks, unto which place I refer the Reader.]

Sect. 4. Aph. 11.

When the bowels are wrung, great torments about the Navil, and a Concomitant pain of the Loins is present, if the morbifick matter be neither taken away by a purging Medicine, nor any other means, it is confirmed into a drye Dropsie or Timpany.

Sect. 4. Aph. 21.

Black dejections like Melancholly blood, coming of their own accord, whether proceed∣ing with a Feaver or without a Feaver, are the worst of all, and so much the worse by how much their colours are many and bad; but if

they are caused by a Medicine, it is better; and the more commendable, if their colours are many and not bad.

Sect. 4. Aph. 22.

If black blood issue forth either upward or downward at the beginning of any Disease what∣soever, it is mortal.

Sect. 4. Aph. 23.

If they who have been emaciated by accute or continual Diseases, by wounds or any other means whatsoever, do void black choller, or something like black blood, they dye the next day following.

Sect. 4. Aph. 24.

If an Excoriation of the bowels or a Dysentery take its original or cause from black Choller, it is mortal.

Sect. 4. Aph. 25.

It is not good to void any blood upward of what kind soever it be, but if black blood be sent forth downwards, it is good.

Sect. 4. Aph. 26.

If small pieces of flesh be ejected with the excrements by him that hath a Dysentry or Bloody Flux, it is mortal.

Sect. 4. Aph. 27.

They from whom by reason of a Feaver much blood doth flow, be the Flux from what part so∣ever, when they are refreshed have moist bellies.

Sect. 4. Aph. 28.

Succeeding Deafnesse stayes and takes away bilious dejections, and Deafnesse if bilious de∣jections arise is finished.

Sect. 4. Aph. 29.

Those Feavers have a very difficult Crisis wherein Rigors or extreme cold fits appear the sixth day.

Sect. 4. Aph. 30.

[See this Aphorisme in the same Section and Aphorisme in the Diagnosticks.]

Sect. 4. Aph. 35.

It is a mortal Sign when in a Feaver the Neck is so wrested on a sudden no tumor pre∣existent that the Sick can hardly swallow.

Sect. 4. Aph. 37.

Cold sweats arising in an accute Disease signi∣fie death, but in a more mild and benign Disease the prolixity thereof.

Sect. 4. Aph. 4.

When mutations chance in the whole body, as if the body be now cold, and then hot again, or if one heat arise from another, the continuance of the Disease is hereby signified.

Sect. 4. Aph. 43.

Those Feavers which afflict most vehemently every third day, and have no intermission, are more dangerous, but if any intermission be, be it after what manner soever, it signifies the Patient to be out of danger.

Sect. 4. Aph. 44.

They who are Sick of long Feavers, have either tumors or pains about the junctures suc∣ceeding.

Sect. 4. Aph. 46.

It is a mortal Sign if frequent rigors come upon a Feaverish person he being weak, and the Feaver not intermitting.

Sect. 4. Aph. 47.

All excreations by spitting, whether they be of a wan colour, bloody, ill savoured, and bi∣lious, are bad in Feavers not intermittent; but it is a good Sign if good excrements are sent forth either by Stool or Urine. But if any matter be sent forth by those places and profit not, it is a bad Sign.

Sect. 4. Aph. 48.

If in a continual Feaver the extreme parts are cold, and the inward burn, and the Sick be very thirsty, it is mortal.

Sect. 4. Aph. 49.

In a not intermittent Feaver, if either the Lip, the Eye-brow, Eye or Nose be turned a∣way; if the Sick see not, or hear not, if any of these Symptomes appear, death is at hand.

Sect. 4. Aph. 50.

Difficulty of breathing, and dotings in conti∣nual Feavers are mortal.

Sect. 4. Aph. 55.

All Feavers caused by an inflamation of the Kernels, are bad.

Sect. 4. Aph. 61.

All intermittent Feavers usually return if they do not intermit upon unequal dayes.

Sect. 4. Aph. 65.

A vehement heat in Feavers about the Sto∣mach, and a gnawing of the Mouth of the Sto∣mach, is naught.

Sect. 4. Aph. 66.

Convulsions, and vehement pains about the Bowels in acute Feavers, is naught.

Sect. 4. Aph. 67.

Tremblings, or Convulsions coming by Sleep in Feavers are bad.

Sect. 5. Aph. 1.

A Convulsion caused by taking of Hellebore, is mortal.

Sect. 5. Aph. 2.

A Convulsion happening upon a wound is mortal.

Sect. 5. Aph. 3.

A Convulsion or Hicket succeeding a great fllux of Blood presageth ill.

Sect. 5. Aph. 5.

If losse of Speech happen suddainly to a Drunken man, he dyeth Convulsive, unlesse a Feaver seize him, or his speech return to him at

the same hour wherein nature doth usually digest the Distemper.

Sect. 5. Aph. 6.

They who are taken with a Convulsion, dye within four dayes; but if they escape that time, they grow well again.

Sect. 5. Aph. 7.

They who are troubled with the Falling Sick∣nesse before they attain the age of Fourteen, may be freed from it; but they who are taken with it at the Age of five and twenty, are usually accompanied therewith to their death.

Sect. 5. Aph. 8.

Unlesse they who are Sick of a Plurisie be clensed in fourteen dayes, the matter is altered into Suppuration.

Sect. 5. Aph. 9.

A Consumption most commonly begins when we are of the age of Eighteen, to Thirty five years.

Sect. 5. Aph. 10.

If matter falling to the Throat, and turn out to a Squinacye, it settles upon the Lungs, and the Sick dye within seven dayes; the which if they escape, the matter turns to Imposthuma∣tion.

Sect. 5. Aph. 11.

If the spittle of Consumptive persons (being cast into the Fire) send forth an ill savour, and their hairs fall off, it argues death.

Sect. 5. Aph. 12.

The falling of the hair, and an extreme loose∣nesse succeeding in a Consumption, is mortal.

Sect. 5. Aph. 13.

Frothy Blood cast forth by spittle cometh from the Lungs.

Sect. 5. Aph. 14.

A Diarrhaea or Extreme Loosenesse in Con∣sumptive persons is mortal.

Sect. 5. Aph. 15.

Pluretick persons suppurated, if they are clensed within forty dayes after the Rupture is made, are freed, otherwise they grow into a Consumption.

Sect. 5. Aph. 71.

They which have their Skin stretched forth, dry and hard, dye without sweating; but they which have a loose and thin Skin, end their life with sweating.

Sect. 7. Aph. 1.

Coldnesse of the extreme parts in acute Di∣seases is naught.

Sect. 7. Aph. 2.

Wan and ill coloured flesh occasioned by the Distemper of a bone foretells ill.

Sect. 7. Aph. 3.

The Hicket and Rednesse of the eyes caused by Vomit, is naught.

Sect. 7. Aph. 4.

Shivering after sweating is naught.

Sect. 7. Aph 5.

A Dysentery, a Dropsie or a vehement di∣sturbance of the mind, (called Exstasis) suc∣ceeding raging or madnesse, is good.

Sect. 7. Aph. 6.

Abhorring of meat and sincere dejections by Stool with continual Disease portends ill.

Sect. 7. Aph. 7.

Extreme chilnesse, and raging by much drink is bad.

Sect. 7. Aph. 8.

Faintnesse, Vomiting, or Swounding are occasioned by an Imposthume broken inwardly.

Sect. 7. Aph. 9.

Madnesse or a Convulsion caused by too much Flux of blood, is naught.

Sect. 7. Aph. 10.

Either Vomiting, the Hicket, Convulsion, or raving caused by a Disease of the thin gut (cal∣led Ileum) is naught.

Sect. 7. Aph. 11.

If an inflamation of the Lungs is caused by a Plurisie, it is naught.

Sect. 7. Aph. 12.

A Phrensy coming by an inflamation of the Lungs is a bad messenger.

Sect. 7. Aph. 13.

A Convulsion or the Cramp, taking their original from extreme burnings, is naught.

Sect. 7. Aph. 14.

Stupidity or dotings, occasioned by a blow up∣on the head, is naught.

Sect. 7. Aph. 15.

If imposthumated matter be voided by spit∣ting, after spitting of blood, is naught.

Sect. 7. Aph. 16.

A Consumption and flux succeed spitting of imposthumated matter, but when the spitting stops, the Sick dyes.

Sect. 7. Aph. 17.

The Hicket coming by the inflamation of the Liver, is evil.

Sect. 7. Aph. 18.

A Convulsion or raving occasioned by too much watching, is bad.

Sect. 7. Aph. 19.

An Erysipclas is caused by the laying open of a bone.

Sect. 7. Aph. 20.

Putrefaction or Imposthumation caused by the tumor called Erysipclas, is naught.

Sect. 7. Aph. 21.

A Flux of Blood proceeding by a vehement and conspicuous wound in the Ulcers of the Ar∣teries, is naught.

Sect. 7. Aph. 22.

A continual pain in the parts which belong to the belly causeth suppuration.

Sect. 7. Aph. 23.

An Excoriation of the Bowels is caused by sincere ejections.

Sect. 7. Aph. 24.

If a bone be peirced or cut to the cavity thereof, it causeth a Delirium.

Sect. 7. Aph. 25.

A Convulsion caused by a purging potion, is mortal.

Sect. 7. Aph. 26.

An extreme coldnesse or chilnesse of the outward parts, occasioned by a vehement pain of those parts which belong to the belly, is naught.

Sect. 7. Aph 27.

An often and vain desire of going to stool, without any performance happening to women with Child, doth cause abortion or miscarriage.

Sect. 7. Aph. 28.

If any bone whatsoever, a Grissel or a Nerve be cut in sunder in the body, it will neither be nourished, nor grow together again.

Sect. 7. Aph. 29.

A violent flux of the belly happening to him that is troubled with the Dropsie, called Lenco∣phlegmatia, doth take away the Disease.

Sect. 7. Aph. 41.

It is a bad Sign when the Hicket happens to elderly men by overmuch purging.

Sect. 7. Aph. 42.

Plenty of warm Water cast upon the head, removes a Feaver, if it did not proceed of Choler.

Sect. 7. Aph. 44.

Suppurated persons being burnt or cut, if pure or white matter issue forth, they escape, but if the matter be something bloody, filthy, and ill savoured, they perish.

Sect. 7. Aph. 45.

They who are cauterized for an impost huma∣mation of the Liver, if pure matter and white issue forth they survive, because the suppurated matter is included in the coats or tumiles. But if the matter flowing forth resemble the Lees of Oyle, they perish.

Sect. 7. Aph. 50.

They whose brain is suddenly taken or benum∣med, dye within three dayes, the which if they escape they recover.

Sect. 7. Aph. 55.

If the Liver being full of water empty it self into the omentum or kell, then the belly is fill'd with water, and the party dies.

Sect. 7. Aph. 60.

When there are mutations in the whole body,

and the body be universally cold, and again hot, and doth not alter that heat, the prolixity or continuance of the Disease is hereby signified.

Sect. 7. Aph. 74.

A water between the skin succeeds the Drop∣sie, called Lencophlegmacye.

Sect. 7. Aph. 75.

A Dysentery or bloody flux succeeds a Diar∣rhaea, or flux of the belly.

CHAP. III. Of Signes by the Spittle.

Sect. 1. Aph. 12.

THe Diseases, seasons of the year, and the change of the circuits, being compared together, whether they are every day, or every other day; or by greater intervals of time, will declare the Accessions and Qualities of Diseases: Moreover, the same things are judged by such Symptomes as presently appear, of which na∣ture is the spittle in pluretick persons; if it ap∣pear presently and at the beginning of the Di∣sease, it foretels its brevity, but if later, the prolixity thereof. The Urine also, excrements of the belly, and sweats when they appear, do give us notice how to judge whether the

Diseases will be easy or hard, short or long.

Sect. 5. Aph. 11.

If the spittle which is cast forth by coughing in Consumptive persons (being cast upon the Coals) send forth an ill savour, and a falling off of the Hairs be concomitant, these are deadly Signes.

CHAP. IV. Of Sweats.

Sect. 4. Aph. 36.

THose Sweats in Feavers are good which be in the third, fifth, seventh, ninth, or eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth, one and twentieth, the seven and twentieth, thirtieth, or four and thirtieth day, for such Sweats are Critical and Judicatory; but those Sweats which do not so expresse themselves, signifie labour, continuance of the Disease, and its return.

Sect. 4. Aph. 37.

Cold Sweats appearing in a very acute Di∣sease, signifie death; but in a more mild and gentle Disease, the continuance thereof.

Sect. 4. Aph. 41.

Much Sweating in sleep without a manifest cause, shews that the body doth use a more than

ordinary dyet. But if they happen to one that doth not eat, they give notice that the body hath need of evacuation.

Sect. 4. Aph. 42.

If much Sweat flow continually, whether hot or cold, the cold signifies a greater, the hot a lesse Disease.

Sect. 4. Aph. 56.

If Sweat happen in a Feaver without inter∣mission of the Feaver, the Feaver is prolonged, and it is an argument of much moisture in the body.

Sect. 5. Aph. 71.

When the skin is stretched forth, is dry and hard, they dye without Sweating; but when it is loose and rare, they end their lives with Sweating.

Sect. 8. Aph. 4.

Vehement and swift Sweats. which arise upon the Critical dayes, and dangerous; and such also which are expell'd upon the fore-head standing like drops of water or flowing, those also which are very cold and much, for of necessity such Sweats must issue forth with violence, excess of trouble, and continual expression.

CHAP. V. Of Urines.

Sect. 4. Aph. 69.

URines made in a Feaver, which are thick, curdled, and few, if they alter to many and thin, are beneficial, especially if they are such wherein either at the beginning or not, much after a Sediment appears.

Sect. 4. Aph. 70.

Urines in Feavers which are troubled like those of kine, signifie a pain of the head either present or to come.

Sect. 4. Aph. 71.

If a Crisis happen upon the seventh day, the the Urine hath a small red cloud in it upon the fourth day, and other things responsible.

Sect. 4. Aph. 72.

All Urines which are very cleer and white, are bad, but such appear chiefly in phrenetick persons.

Sect. 4. Aph. 73.

They whose Diaphragma being lifted up, makes a murmuring pain of the Loins succeed∣ing, have moist and soluble bellies, unlesse much wind break backward, or plenty of Urine

be voided; These Symptomes are contingent in Feavers.

Sect. 4. Aph. 74.

When there is a probability of an Imposthu∣mation about the joynts, plenty of Urine, thick and white being made, freeth from the abscess: such kinds of abscesses do begin to be carried every fourth day in Feavers accompanied with a weariness, or lazie indisposition. And if an Haemorrhagile, or bleeding at the Nose happen at the same time, the Disease will very shortly be dissolved.

Sect. 4. Aph. 75.

Blood or suppurated matter, being made with the Urin, signifies either Ulceration of the Reins or Bladder.

Sect. 4. Aph. 76.

Small peices of flesh, or something like hairs voided forth with the Urine, are sent from the Reins.

Sect. 4. Aph. 77.

When something like bran is sent forth with a thick Urine, the Bladder is troubled with a Scab.

Sect. 4. Aph. 78.

They which Pisse Blood freely mixed with their Urine, have a Vein broke in their Reins.

Sect 4. Aph. 79.

A sandy sediment appearing in the Urine sig∣nifies the Stone in the Bladder.

Sect. 4. Aph. 80.

He that pisseth blood, and curdled matter with his Urine, if he have the Strangury, and the pain fall down into the lower belly and the Pe∣rinaeum, is diseased in those parts which belong to the Bladder.

Sect. 4. Aph. 81.

Blood, suppurated matter, and small scales voided with the Urine, if an ill sent accompany, signifie an exulceration of the Bladder.

Sect. 4. Aph. 83.

Plenty of Urine made in the night, signifies but small ejections by stool.

Sect. 7. Aph. 31.

When the Hypostasis or Sediment of the Urine of men sick of a Feaver, happens to appear like grosse peices or gobbets of parched barly not ex∣actly ground, it signifies that the Disease will be long.

Sect. 7. Aph. 32.

Bilious Sediments, but thin above, signifie an acute Disease.

Sect. 7. Aph. 33.

When the Urines are sundry and divided, there is a vehement perturbation in the whole body.

Sect. 7. Aph. 34.

Bubbles standing upon the upper part of the Urine, signifie a Disease of the Reins, and that it will be long.

Sect 7. Aph. 35.

Fat upon the top of the Urine heaped to∣gether, signifies a Disease of the Reins, and that it is acute also.

CHAP. VI. Of Signes by the Flux of the Belly.

Sect. 2. Aph. 14.

IN Fluxes of the Belly, alteration of the excre∣ments, unlesse they are changed to bad, are beneficial.

Sect. 2. Aph. 15.

When the jaws are afflicted, or if tumours appear in the body, the excretions or excrements are to be taken into consideration; For if they are bilious, the body also is sick, but if they are like those voided by sound bodies, you may se∣curely nourish the body.

Sect. 2. Aph. 20.

They whose bellies are moist while they are young, when they grow old are costive; but such as are costive in their youth, have soluble bodies when they grow old.

Sect. 4. Aph. 21.

Black excrements like black blood proceed∣ing of their own accord, either with a Feaver,

or without a Feaver, are worst of all, and so much the worse by how much their colours are more and worse. But they are better if they are caused by a Purging Medicine, and so much the better, if their colours are many and not bad.

Sect. 4. Aph. 23.

If they who have been emaciated by acute or long Diseases, by wounds, or any other means, do void melancholly or black blood downwards, they dye the next day after.

Sect. 4. Aph. 24.

If a dysentery took its original from black choler, it is mortal.

Sect. 4. Aph. 25.

It is not good to void any blood whatsoever upward, but if black blood be voided downward, it is good.

Sect. 4. Aph. 26.

If little peices of flesh be voided by him that hath an excoriation of the bowels, it is mortal.

CHAP. VII. Of the time of the Crisis appearing.

Sect. 1. Aph. 12.

TO avoid a tedious and needlesse repetition of the same Aphorisms, I must refer the

Reader for his satisfaction of this Aphorisme, unto the former Chapter of the Signs by the spittle, where he may satisfie himself.