VIII. What symptoms are dangerous, or hopeful in particular diseases, 52 IX. Of the cure of diseases, 59 X. Of bleeding, 60 XI. Of cupping, 64 XII. Of purging by internal medicines and clysters, 65 XIII. Of vomiting, 67 XIV. Of friction, 68 XV. Of gestation, 70 XVI. Of abstinence, 71 XVII. Of sweating, 72 XVIII. The different kinds of food and drink, 74 XIX. General properties of different foods, 77 XX. Of things containing good juices, 78 XXI. Of foods containing bad juices, 78 XXII. Of mild and acrid things, 79 XXIII. Of those things which generate a thick and a fluid phlegm, 79 XXIV. Of what agrees with the stomach, 80 XXV. Of things hurtful to the stomach, 80 XXVI. Of those things which occasion flatulencies; and the contrary, 81 XXVII. Of those things which heat and cool, 81 XXVIII. Of what is easily corrupted in the stomach, 82 XXIX. Of what opens the belly, 82 XXX. Of what binds the belly, 83 XXXI. Of diuretic meats and drinks, 83 XXXII. Of soporiferous, and exciting substances, 84 XXXIII. Of those things which draw, repel, or cool, or heat, or harden, or soften, 84 BOOK III. CHAP. I. General division of distempers, 86 II. General diagnostics of acute and chronic, increasing and declining diseases; the difference of regimen in each; and precautions necessary upon the apprehension of an approaching illness, 87 III. Of the several kinds of fevers, 89 IV. Of the different methods of cure, 91 V. Particular directions for giving food in the different species of fevers, 95 VI. The proper times for giving drink to persons in fevers; and the kinds of aliments suited to the several stages of the distempers; together with some general observations, 99