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 fifth, containing the Aphorismes pertaining to Feavers. (Book 5)

THat a Physician may satisfie and perform all his intentions required, find out all requisite Medicines, and apply them seasonably, it is not sufficient onely to preserve the strength of the Pa∣tient, and remove morbifick causes, but it is also necessary that he know the nature of the Disease, and the part affected very exactly, which will the better be performed, if he be throughly acquaint∣ed with those Aphorismes which declare the Di∣seases of the whole body in general, and those also which respect the praeter naturall affects of the par∣ticular parts of the whole body. The first where of the Aphorismes of the Discovery of Feavers with their Accidents, will manifest; the second will be discovered by the following Aphorismes.

CHAP. I. Of Continual Feavers.

Sect. 3. Aph. 21.

IN the Summer continual Feavers, and burn∣ing, very many Tertians and Quartans do arise, &c. [See the third Aphorisme in the Chap∣ter of Summer Diseases.]

Sect. 4. Aph. 43.

Continual Tertian Feavers which have their Paroxismes every third day, and no intermission are more dangerous; But if they remit by any means howsoever, they signifie no danger to the Patient.

Sect. 4. Aph. 46.

If frequent rigors happen in Feavers, the sick being weak without intermission of the Fea∣ver, it is a mortal sign.

Sect. 4. Aph. 47.

Excreations or spittings either wa•…•… of colour, bloody, stinking or bilious, are all bad in a con∣tinual Feaver; but if such are voided which are of a good condition, it is good, whether they are voided by stool, or Urine; but if any of these things are voided and ease not the Sick, they are bad.

Sect. 4. Aph. 48.

In continual Feavers if the external parts are cold, and the internal are inflamed, and the Sick be extream thirsty, it is deadly.

Sect 4. Aph. 49.

In continual Feavers, if the lip, eye-brow, eye or nose be perverted, or convulsive, if the sick hear not, or see not; which soever of these do happen, do signifie death approaching

Sect. 4. Aph. 50.

Difficulty of breathing, or a delirium happen∣ing in a continual Feaver, is mortal.

Sect. 4. Aph. 56.

Sweats happening in a not-intermitting Fea∣ver, if the Feaver do not intermit, are bad, for the Disease is prorogued, and much moisture is thereby signified to be in the body.

Sect. 7. Aph. 72.

[This Aphorisme is the same with the fifth Aphorisme of this Chap. Sect. 4. Aph. 48.]

Sect. 7. Aph. 73.

[This Aphorisme nothing differs from the 49. Aphorisme in the fourth Section mentioned before in this Chapter.]

CHAP. II. Of Acute Feavers.

Sect. 2. Aph. 19.

PRedictions of life or death in acute Diseases, are not altogether certain.

Sect. 2. Aph. 23.

Acute Diseases are judged by their Crisis within fourteen dayes.

Sect. 3. Aph 7.

Foggs and stinking mists generate acute Di∣seases, and if the year continue in the same constitution, we must expect Diseases of the same nature.

Sect. 3. Aph. 9.

Most acute Diseases and destructive are most usual in the Autumn, the Spring is more whol∣some and lesse pernitions.

Sect. 3. Aph. 11.

If the winter be extraordinary dry with North winds, and the Spring very rainy with South winds, acute Feavers, sore Eyes, and Dysen∣teries, must of necessity arise the following Summer, especially in women and in men which are of a constitution more than ordinary moist.

Sect. 4. Aph. 37.

Cold Sweats in a very acute Feaver, signifie death, but in a more mild Disease, the prolixity thereof.

Sect. 4. Aph. 66.

Convulsions, and vehement pains about the bowels, in acute Diseases, are bad.

Sect. 5. Aph. 64.

[See this Aphorisme in the Chapter of Milk.]

Sect. 6. Aph. 54.

Breathings with groans in acute Diseases with a Feaver are ill.

Sect. 7. Aph. 1.

Cold or chilnesse of the extreme parts, in acute Feavers, is bad.

CHAP. III. Of Burning Feavers.

Sect. 3. Aph. 23.

TUrn to this Aphorisme in the Chapter of Diseases of the Summer season.]

Sect. 4. Aph. 54.

They who have dry coughs, lightly provoking in burning Feavers, are not usually very thirsty.

Sect. 4. Aph. 58.

If a rigour or very cold fit happen to him

which hath a burning Feaver, the Feaver is there∣by dissolved.

Sect. 6. Aph. 26.

Trembling happening in burning Feavers, are taken away by a Delirium or Raving.

CHAP. IV. Of Intermittent Feavers.

Sect. 1. Aph. 11.

ALL meat is to be avoided in the fits and Paroxisms of Feavers, for it is hurtful to give meats then, and we ought to fear such acci∣dent in the accesses which grow more painful or worse and worse in the circuits or intermissions.

Sect. 1. Aph. 12.

The Diseases, seasons of the year, and the changing of the circuits, being compared toge∣ther, whether they are every other day or by longer intervalls of time, will declare the ac∣cessions and conditions of Diseases. Moreover the same judgement may be given by such Symp∣tomes as presently appear, of that nature is spit∣tle in Pluretick persons, the which, if it appears at the beginning of the Disease, praedicts its brevity; but if later, the prolixity thereof. The Urine also, the excrements of the belly, and the

sweats when they appear, do signifie unto us by Judicature, whether the Disease will be easie or hard, short or long.

Sect. 4. Aph. 30.

Those intermittent Feavers are hard to be judged of wherein the Feaver returns the next day, at the same hour wherein it left the Patient the day before, at what hour soever it were that the dismission happened.

Sect. 4. Aph. 43.

Feavers which afflict the Patient more vio∣lently every third day, and have no intermission, are more dangerous. For intermissions after what manner soever contingent, do signifie the Sick to be without danger.

CHAP. V. Of Tertian Feavers.

Sect. 3. Aph. 2.

SEE this Aphorisme before in the Chapter of Diseases incident in the Summer, Sect. 3. Aph. 2.]

Sect. 4. Aph. 43.

[See this Aphorisme before in the Chapter of Intermittent Feavers, Sect. 4. Aph. 43.]

Sect. 4. Aph. 59.

An exquisite Tertian is judged in seven fits at the longest.

CHAP. VI. Of a Quartane Feaver.

Sect. 2. Aph. 25.

QUartan Feavers which begin in the Summer are usually short, but such as begin in the Autumn are long, especially if they continue un∣to the winter.

Sect. 3. Aph. 21.

[See this Aphorisme in the Chapter of Inter∣mittent Feavers, the same Section and Apho∣risme.]

Sect. 3. Aph. 22.

[See this Aphorisme in the Chapter of Autumnal Diseases, the same Section and Aphorisme.]

Sect. 5. Aph. 70.

Men sick of quartan Feavers are seldome taken with Convulsions, but if they were convulsive before, they are freed by a succeeding quartan feaver.

CHAP. VII. Of Quotidian Feavers.

Sect. 4. Aph. 63.

QUotidian Feavers are dissolved by daily, rigors.

CHAP. VIII. Of Long Feavers.

Sect. 2. Aph. 25.

QUartan Agues beginning in the Summer, are usually short, but Autumnal are long, espe∣cially if they continue until winter.

Sect. 2. Aph. 28.

It is an ill signe when bodies exercised with strong Feavers do stand at a stay, and are nothing diminished, or wasted, or else are extremely and beyond reason wasted by the Disease; for the one signifies a long continuance of the Disease, the other the weaknesse of the Patient.

Sect. 3. Aph. 16.

Daily showres, do cause Diseases for the most part, as of long Feavers, fluxed, putrid Fea∣vers,

the falling sicknesse, apoplexies and squi∣nancies. But great droughts do cause Consump∣tions, sore eyes, pains of the Joynts, droppings of the Urine, and excoriation of the bowels.

Sect. 3. Aph. 27.

Moreover to those of riper years, about the fourteenth year of their age, many of the for∣mer Diseases and continual Feavers and Hoemor∣rhagies, or issuing of blood out of their nose, are incident.

Sect. 4. Aph. 36.

Sweats in Feavers are beneficial if they begin upon the third, fifth, seventh, ninth, eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth, one and twentieth, seven and twentieth, thirtieth, or four and thir∣tieth dayes, for such sweats are criticall and ju∣dicatory. But sweats which do not express them∣selves upon some of the aforenamed dayes, sig∣nifie the long continuance of the Feaver, and the reversion thereof.

Sect. 4. Aph. 44.

Small tumors or pains of the joynts grow upon such bodies, which have had long Feavers.

Sect. 4. Aph. 51.

Such Feavers which do intermit, if they are not dissolved within few Crises at the beginning, signifie a prolonging of the Di∣sease.

Sect. 4. Aph. 53.

Those Feavers are most vehement, where∣in clammy or gluttinous humours by rea∣son of the Feaver, groweth to the Teeth of the Sick.

CHAP. IX. Of Sweats in Feavers.

Sect. 1. Aph. 12.

THe Urine, excrements of the belly, and Sweats, when they appear, do demonstrate unto us whether the Diseases will have an easie or hard Crisis, or whether they will be long or short.

Sect. 4. Aph. 36.

[You may Read this Aphorisme in the same number of Section and Aphorisme in the pre∣ceeding Chapter of long Feavers.]

Sect. 4. Aph. 37.

Cold Sweats in a very acute Feaver, signifie death, but in more mild and benign Feaver, the prolixity or long continuance thereof.

It is an ill sign when sweats are contingent to a Feaver-sick person without intermission of the Feaver, for the Disease is prolonged, and such sweat argues much humidity in the body.

CHAP. X. Of Rigors in Feavers.

Sect. 4. Aph. 29.

SUch Feavers have a difficult Crisis wherein Rigors are contingent the sixth day.

Sect. 4. Aph. 46.

Often Rigors incident in continual Feavers, the body being weak, are mortal.

Sect. 4. Aph. 58.

A Burning Feaver is discharged by the con∣tingency of a Rigor, or exceeding cold super∣vening.

Sect. 4. Aph. 63.

Feavers which have daily rigors, are every day dissolved.

Sect. 5. Aph. 17.

The frequent use of cold things, causeth con∣vulsions, distensions of the nerves, blacknesse, and feaverish rigors.

Sect. 5. Aph. 20.

Cold things cause a gnawing in ulcers, har∣dens the skin, hinders from suppuration, causeth blacknesse, Feaverish rigors, convulsions and distensions of the nerves.

CHAP. XI. Of Convulsions in Feavers.

Sect. 2. Aph. 26.

IT is better that a Feaver should come upon a Convulsion, then a Convulsion upon a Fea∣ver.

Sect. 4. Aph. 57.

A Succeeding Feaver frees him that is taken with a Convulsion, or the cramp.

Sect. 4. Aph. 66.

Convulsions and vehement pains happening about the bowels in acute Feavers presage ill.

Sect. 4. Aph. 67.

Tremblings and Convulsions happening to Feaverish persons in their sleeps, are bad.

Sect. 4. Aph. 68.

Interception of spirits in Feavers is naught, for it is an argument of a Convulsion.

Sect. 5. Aph. 5.

If a drunken person be suddenly Speechlesse, he dyes convulsive, unlesse a Feaver succeed, or he recovering his Speech the same hour that the humour is usually digested.

Sect. 5. Aph. 70.

Those who have Quartane Feavers, are sel∣dome taken with Convulsions, but if they are first taken a succeeding Feavers frees them.

CHAP. XII. Of the rest of the Symptomes happening in Feavers.

Sect. 4. Aph. 27.

THey which have lost much blood by Fea∣vers, from what part soever the slux was, have soluble bodies when they are refreshed, or have recovered their strength.

Sect. 4. Aph. 31.

They which have a sense of Lazinesse or in∣disposition caused by Feavers, have tumors about their joynts, and chiefly about their mandibles or jawbones.

Sect. 4. Aph. 34.

A suddain strangulation happening in a Feaver without any preceeding tumour in the jaws, is mortal.

Sect. 4. Aph. 35.

If the neck be perverted on a suddain, so that the Sick can hardly swallow, and if no tumor do appear, it is mortal.

Sect. 4. Aph. 44.

Tumours or pains about the joynts, do accom∣pany those who have had long Feavers.

Sect. 4. Aph. 44.

Extremity of cold in the external parts, and burning heats in the internal, with a vehement thirst, is mortal.

Sect. 4. Aph. 49.

In continual Feavers, if the Lip, Eye-lid, Eye, or Nose, be turned aside, if the Sick see not, neither hear, and be very weak; which soe∣ver of these Signs happen, argue death approach∣ing.

Sect. 4. Aph. 50.

Difficulty of breathing, and raving happen∣ing in a Feaver which hath no intermission, is deadly.

Sect. 4. Aph. 51.

If Intermittent Feavers are not dissolved by few Crises at the beginning, they argue the length and continuance of the Disease.

Sect. 4. Aph. 52.

Voluntary tears argue no inconvenience to the Sick either in Feavers, or other Diseases; but tears falling unwillingly, are more inconvenient.

Sect. 4. Aph. 53.

Those Feavers are most vehement by which a clammy or gluttinous humour doth grow to the Teeth.

Sect. 4. Aph. 54.

They which have dry Coughs, lightly provok∣ing, if they continue long in burning Feavers, are not much troubled with thirst.

Sect. 4. Aph. 55.

All Feavers proceeding from the Inflama∣tion of the Glandules or Kernels are bad but Diaries.

Sect. 4. Aph. 60.

An Hemorrhagia or bleeding at the Nose, or a Diarrhaea or Flux of the belly, doth take away deafnesse caused by Feavers.

Sect. 4. Aph. 62.

It is not good if the Yellow Jaundies appear, in Feaver-sick persons, before the seventh day.

Sect. 4. Aph. 63.

Daily Feavers are dissolved daily by Rigors.

Sect. 4. Aph. 64.

The Jaundies coming upon a Feaver is good if they appear upon the seventh, ninth, eleventh, or fourteenth day; unlesse the right Hypocon∣drium be hard, then it is not good.

Sect. 4. Aph. 65.

A vehement heat about the Stomach, and a gnawing in the mouth of the Stomach in Feavers is not good.

Sect. 4. Aph. 69.

Those Urines in Feavers are advantagious, which being thick, curdled, and few, do turn to

thin and many, especially if they be such as have a Sediment at the first, or not much after.

Sect. 4. Aph. 70.

Urines very much troubled, like those of kine, do signifie a pain of the head either present, or suddenly to succeed.

Sect. 4. Aph. 73.

They which have a murmuring about the midriffe, with a succeeding pain in the Reins, have soluble and moist bellies, unlesse plenty of wind be voided downward, or much Urine be made, and these Symptomes are contingent in Feavers.

Sect. 5. Aph 55.

All women with Child, if they are taken with a Feaver and are very much extenuated, without a manifest cause, have hard and dangerous Tra∣vail, or fall into hazzard of abortment.

Sect. 6. Aph. 26.

A raving frees from tremblings in a burning Feaver.

Sect. 6. Aph. 44.

The Iliack passion succeeding a Strangury kills within seven dayes, unlesse plenty of Urine be made, and a Feaver succeed.

Sect. 6. Aph. 50.

A Feaver and bilious vomitings must of ne∣cessity succeed, when the brain is hurt or pe∣rish'd.

Sect. 6. Aph. 54.

Painful breathings with groans are bad in acute Feavers.

Sect. 7. Aph. 52.

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

Sect. 7. Aph. 65.

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