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THrough what place there will be excretion the inclina∣tion of the humour teacheth, and about those parts to which the humour to be expelled is moved, or through which it is moved, a certain change is perceived.
When a Crifis is to come by the Hemerodes of the Nose, * 1.1 the Hypocondries are wont first to be extended without pain, then when the blood finds the way to the superior parts, it causeth difficulty of respiration, but not long continuing; afterwards followes the paine of the head and neck, and the pulse becomes more vehement, and at times the Arteries are discerned to beat and pant, and the face and eyes become redder, and the eyes shed involuntary teares, and shinings, or glistrings are observed in them, or dimnesse ariseth, the imagination is also hurt, and a Delirium happens, and cer∣tain red apparitions seem to be before the eyes; and moreo∣ver the Hemerodes being now nigh, the sick begin to scratch their Nose with their fingers: and these signes are the more certain, if the age of the sick, and nature, and the time of the year, and the present constitution of the aire consent.
If by reason of sweat which happens very often, * 1.2 a Crisis be to come, there happens•• suppression of Urine for the most part, and a cold fit hinders it: but the signes of Hemerods are absent, as also the signes of Vomits, and monthly courses, and when the sweat comes forth the pulse is soft, waving and flowing, the exterior parts grow hot, and red, the skin is soft, and a certain hot vapour breaks out through the skin.
That there will be a Crisis by vomit, the motion of the hu∣mours to the stomack shew, * 1.3 from whence ariseth biting of the stomack with paine of the head, a giddinesse and dark cloudy shadowes or mists before the eyes, agitation of the lower lip, much and thin spittle flowing out of the mouth, loathing and disdaining, a cold chill fit, or trembling, and frigidity of the Hypocondries, a hard and unequal pulse, and difficulty of breathing.
If a Crisis be to follow by reason of excrements from the Paunch, * 1.4 there is no proper and exact rule to know it, but only thus, because signes of a Crisis are present, but signes of a Vomit, or slux of blood, or sweat, or of courses are wanting, therefore we may conjecture there will be a Cri∣sis of the belly, and especially if belching wind, rumbling, or breaking wind in the ••elly be present; also paine of the loynes, heavinesse of the knees use to happen, and the Vrine is sometimes suppressed, or made more sparingly.
That there will be a Crisis in the same manner, * 1.5 is knowne by the absence of signes, which use to shew the manners of other Crises, and the sick are not much tossed up and down, nor are they much out of quiet, but there is present a cer∣taine
gravity of the Hypocondries, and a perception of windi∣nesse about the bladder, and afterwards the Urines begin to be increased, the dregs of the belly to be retained, and the sick when he makes water is sensible of certain paine.
Tis a signe that there will be a Crisis by the courses if signes of other evacuations be absent, * 1.6 but when the time when the tearmes are wont to flow, is present; and moreo∣ver the heat and gravity of the loynes concur, when there is paine and stretching out of the Hypocondries, and other Symptomes which familiarly happen when the courses are present.
By the Hemerodes that there will be a Crisis is collected, * 1.7 If this flux be not otherwise familiar to the sick, and the signes of other criticall evacuations be absent, and the sick perceive some heat about the marrow of the back, or paine or extending of the loynes, or some paine in the belly.
If criticall excretions are to come through more places, * 1.8 the signes of more excretions wil give you notice thereof.
Lastly, if it be conjectured that nature will remove the morbifique matter into another place, that place where the Impostumation will be, is known by the inclination of the matter to those parts whether inferior or superior, although the matter be thin, it shall rather be moved to the superior then the inferior parts, and if nature be strong, it rather drives the matter towards the inferior, then the superior parts.
Signes of Hemerodes of the nose.
Of a critick sweat.
Vomit.
Excretion of the ••el∣ly.
By Ʋrine.
By courses.
By Heme∣rodes.
By more parts. In What place an Impostume will hap∣pen.