Volume 2

Hippocrates upon Air, water, and situation; upon Epidemical diseases; and upon Prognosticks, in acute cases especially. To this is added (by way of comparison) Thucydidesʼs Account of the plague of Athens / The whole translated, methodisʼd, and illustrated with useful and explanatory notes by Francis Clifton. [With life of Hippocrates from Soranus].

  • Hippocrates.
Date:
1734
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Credit: Hippocrates upon Air, water, and situation; upon Epidemical diseases; and upon Prognosticks, in acute cases especially. To this is added (by way of comparison) Thucydidesʼs Account of the plague of Athens / The whole translated, methodisʼd, and illustrated with useful and explanatory notes by Francis Clifton. [With life of Hippocrates from Soranus]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fevers, attended with ulcerations of the lips, are per¬ haps intermitting, and the coldnefs comes upon the third day; but thofe that are of the burning kind appear al¬ ways to the hand as carry’d off h Of inter- Thofe that intermit, but grow hot again irregularly, jnittents. with an inflation of the belly, and a fmall difcharge downwards, fall into a purging after the crifis with a pain of the loins at the fame time. But thofe that are burning fat to the touch, attended with numbnefs, thirft, ficknefs at the ftomach and uneafinefs, upon the belly’s being lockt up are overcome with heavinefs. Sometimes alfo very red eruptions, like burnt places, in the feet denote the fame s. Fevers that intermit, upon account of matter s forming within, are generally attended with little fweats about the head and neck 9. Where matter is form’d within, a deafnefs coming on denotes a difcharge of blood downwards. Such have alfo black ftools before death 1. A pain of the fide in a long fever denotes a future dif¬ charge of 'matter 2„ Frequent chillinefles are a fign of matter’s forming inwardly. Add to this, that a fever leads fuch a patient to thofe collections 3 * OCtertians Fevers of the tertian kind, attended with ficknefs at the ftomach and uneafinefs, are of a bad fort 4. in the tnvo lafi οφρυς. i. e. the eyelid, or more properly the eyebrow, is omitted, But fee the aphorifms upon the eyes, p. 275, and efpedally the lafi in that page, before the transla¬ tion be condemn'd. 7 L. 6. Epid. feft. 8. aph. 41. s C. P. 158. 9 Ibid. 419* 1 Ibid, 420. 2 Ibid. 421. 3 Ibid. 4220 4 Ibid. 33. Fevers.