Of Medicine, in Eight BooksCelsus, Aulus Cornelius
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Of Medicine, in Eight Books
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius
Medicine, Greek and Roman
liable to the same dangers, who have complaints in their joints,
such as pains and swellings coming and going, without the gout, and
such-like distempers. Particularly if their temples are often pained,
and their body sweats in the night-time, and their forehead itches,
there is fear of a lippitude. If a woman after delivery has violent
pains, with no other bad symptoms, about the twentieth day there will
either be an eruption of blood from the nose, or some abscess in the
lower parts. And _in general_ in any person, a violent pain about the
temples and forehead, will be removed in one of these two ways: more
probably by an hæmorrhage, if the person be young; if somewhat more
advanced, by a suppuration. A fever, which goes off suddenly without
any apparent reason, without good signs, commonly returns. A person,
whose fauces are filled with blood, both in the day-time, and in the
night, will be found to have an ulcer there, if neither pains of the
head, nor of the præcordia, nor a cough, nor vomiting, nor slight
fever have preceded. If a woman is attacked with a slight fever from a
disorder in the groin, and the cause does not appear, there is an ulcer
in the womb. Thick urine, in which there is a white sediment, implies
that there is a pain about the joints, or the bowels, and fear of some
impending distemper. When it is green, it shows, that the bowels will
be pained, or that there will be a swelling attended with some danger;
or at least, that the body is not sound. But if there is blood or
pus in the urine, either the bladder or kidneys are ulcerated. If it
be thick, and contain in it some small caruncles, or something like
hairs; or if it be frothy, or fetid; or sometimes bring off something
like sand, and sometimes like blood; and the hips be pained, and those
parts, which lie between them, and above the pubes; and besides these
if there be frequent eructations, sometimes a bilious vomiting, and the
extremities be cold, and there is a frequent inclination to make water,
but great difficulty in it, and what comes away be limpid, or reddish,
or pale, and gives some small relief, and the belly be discharged with
much wind; in such circumstances the distemper lies in the kidneys.
But if the urine drops away slowly, or if blood is discharged with it,
and in that some bloody concretions, and it is made with difficulty,
and the internal parts about the pubes are pained, the fault is in the
bladder. Those, that have calculous concretions, are known by these
symptoms. The urine is made with difficulty, and comes away slowly, and
by drops, and sometimes involuntarily, is sandy; sometimes blood, or
bloody concretions, or something purulent is discharged with it. Some
make it more readily standing upright, others lying upon their back:
especially those, that have large stones; some even in an inclined
posture, and these by drawing out the penis, alleviate their pain.
There is also a sensation of weight in that part, which is increased
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