The Genuine Works of Hippocrates Volume 1

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... the salutary symptoms appear along with these there may be hope that the disease will turn to a deposition, so that the man may recover; but the blackened parts of the body will drop off. "When the testicles and members are retracted upwards, they indicate strong pains and danger of death.' 1 The paragraph on the prognostics relating to dropsies is founded in a great measure on the Coacae Pramotiones, 454. The ancient writers who treat systematically of dropsy generally describe four varieties of it, namely, dropsy from disease of the liver, from disease of the spleen, from fever, and from a sudden draught of cold water. See De Morbis, and Paulus egineta, B. HI, 48, Sydenham Society's edition. 8 On this variety I have remarked in the Comment, on Paulus Egineta: "Hippocrates refers one species of dropsy to disease of the parts situated in the loins, by which Galen and Stephanus agree that he means the jejunum, mesaraic veins, and kidneys.' (Paulus JEgiaeta. 1. c.) M. Littre' accordingly holds it probable that allusion is made to granular degeneration of the kidneys, that is to say, to Bright's disease. (Opera, etc., torn, ii., 388.) 8 Dr. Ermerins remarks that the species of dropsy here described was most probably connected with organic disease of the parts situated in the abdominal region, arising from inflammation with which they had been previously attacked. 4 This paragraph is pretty closely taken from the Coaea; Pnenotiones, 492. A good deal of stress is laid upon the state of the temperature of the extremities in the reports of the febrile cases contained in the Epidemics. He announces it as a general truth that coldness of the extremities in acute diseases is bad. (Aphor. 10. With regard to sleep--as is usual with us in...