Of Medicine, in Eight BooksCelsus, Aulus Cornelius
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Of Medicine, in Eight Books
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius
Medicine, Greek and Roman
by running, and every kind of motion. Some also in the paroxysm of
the pain, cross their feet over one another, often changing them. But
women are often obliged to rub the external orifice of their pudenda
with their hands: sometimes applying their finger to that part, when
it presses upon the neck of the bladder, they feel the stone. But
where any expectorate frothy blood, their disorder is in the lungs. A
pregnant woman, whose belly is very loose, may possibly miscarry. If
the milk flows from her breast, the fœtus is weak. Hard breasts shew
the child to be sound. A frequent hiccough, and of longer continuance
than ordinary, is a sign of an inflammation of the liver. If tumours
upon ulcers have suddenly disappeared, and this has happened in the
back, we may be apprehensive either of convulsions, or a tetanus: but
if in the fore part of the body, either a pleurisy or madness is to
be expected. Sometimes also a purging, which is the safest of them
all, follows such an accident. If the hæmorrhoidal veins, in one used
to a discharge of blood from them, suddenly stop, either a dropsical
disorder or a consumption ensues. A consumption also comes on, if
suppurated matter derived from a pleurisy cannot be carried off within
forty days. But where there is a long continued grief attended with
long fear and watching, the atrabiliary distemper is the consequence.
Those, who have frequent hæmorrhages from the nose, labour under a
swelling of the spleen, or pains of the head: and they commonly see
imaginary objects floating before their eyes. But those, whose spleens
are large, have their gums diseased and a stinking mouth, or an
hæmorrhage in some part. If none of these happen, bad ulcers will be
formed in their legs, and black cicatrices from them. Where there is
a cause of pain and no sense of it, the mind is disordered. If blood
has been collected in the abdomen, it is there converted into pus. If
a pain removes from the hips and the lower parts into the breast, and
no bad symptom has supervened, there is danger of a suppuration in
that place. Those, that without a fever have a pain, or itching, with
redness and heat, in any part, will have a suppuration there. Limpid
urine also in a valetudinary person portends some suppuration about the
ears.
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