Of Medicine, in Eight BooksCelsus, Aulus Cornelius
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Of Medicine, in Eight Books
Celsus, Aulus Cornelius
Medicine, Greek and Roman
hæmorrhage from the nose, is free from all danger. And one, that is
hysteric(13) or has a difficult labour, is relieved by sneezing. To
one, that has a heat and tremour, a delirium is salutary. Dysenteries
are of service to splenetic people. Lastly, a fever itself, which
may seem very wonderful, is often a remedy _for other distempers_.
For it both cures pains of the præcordia, that are not attended with
inflammation, and relieves in a pain of the liver; and entirely removes
convulsions, and a tetanus, if it comes after them; and where the
distemper of the smaller intestine has been occasioned by a difficulty
in making urine, if by the heat it promotes urine, it gives ease.
Pains of the head attended with dimness of the eyes and redness with
an itching in the forehead, are removed by a discharge of blood,
either spontaneous or procured. If pains of the head and forehead
arise from being exposed to the wind, or cold, or heat, they are cured
by a gravedo, and sneezing. A sudden shuddering puts an end to an
ardent fever, which the Greeks call causodes[AV]. When in a fever,
there is a deafness, if blood is discharged from the nose, or the
belly turns loose, that disorder is entirely removed. Nothing is more
prevalent against deafness, than bilious stools. Those, that have small
abscesses, which the Greeks call phymata[AW], formed in the urethra,
are cured, when pus is discharged from thence. Now as most of these
favourable turns happen of themselves, we may conclude, that nature has
very great power in these very helps, which are applied by art.
[AV] καυσώδης.
[AW] φύματα.
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