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CHAP. II. Of the signs of a Hectick Fever.
A Hectick Fever is known by its continual heat, causing no pain, * 1.1 as being equal; and Hectick which indeed at the first touch is weak, afterwards it appears sharper: It is per∣ceived more in the Arteries then the other parts: And moreo∣ver, the heat after taking food, within an hour or two is increa∣sed, and the Pulse either is changed, as to greatness or swiftness, yet so, that its ascending appears strong and free, and none of those things precede which forego the fits of putred Fevers most commonly; and this mutation of pulse and heat, endures until the aliment be distributed. The pulse also in this Fever is lit∣tle, * 1.2 frequent, and moderately swift; and by how much the more the strength receiveth this Fever, by so much the more the body is consumed, and the strength debilitated, so that the sick can scarce lift up the eye-lids, and together with it in the second place, fatness in Urine swims like cobwebs. Lastly, The same things which appear in an hippocratical face, as 'tis described by Hippocrates, are also discerned in a marasmodes or Hectick, with wasting.
A Hectick with a Putred, * 1.3 and an Intermittent conjunct, is known from hence; That the fit declining, the heat nevertheless, although remiss, some is left thereof, and there is great languish∣ing of the strength, and all the other parts are more temperate, only the parts where the arteries are become hotter, and the pulse loseth not its swiftness and frequency, and the sick takes food, but is not strengthned thereby. A Hectick joyned with a continued putrid Fever, is difficult to be known; yet it may be known from hence, namely, because the dry calidity remains after the end of the declination, or of the whole Fever, or its periods; and the body is more extenuated then otherwise it useth to be, the Urine also becomes oylie, as may appear.
It is hard to know a Hectick in the beginning of it; * 1.4 'tis not so difficult to cure at the first: but that which is neerer to wast∣ing, or a consumption, is easily known, but hardly cured, and at the last it becomes plainly incurable.