Medical Compendium: Galen and Hippocrates

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The much-discussed matter of the blood, which is for the most part sporadic, has its whole nature in such a way that in cases of burning fevers original: "καύσοις" (kausos). An ancient medical term for a highly acute, scorching fever often associated with bile. and in all acute fevers, the glands beside the ears—which they indeed call the parotids original: "παρωτίδας." Glands located near the ear; their swelling was a critical diagnostic sign in Hippocratic medicine.—become inflamed, and these patients suddenly fall into a fever. We shall assume nothing of them other than their proportion to the parts, how that which is according to nature relates to the heart in a body suffering from fever. Since? it is fitting that the fire should be thus: for the natural fire exists in this way, though mostly in excess, as you say.
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The inflammation, and because of this the artery being settled by the fever, suddenly disrupts the function. Regarding women, it is less about this. In? this way, the glands involve heating, yawning, shivering, and rigor, whenever it occurs. By metaphor to the physician: there is therefore a suspicion of wasting away. These things will be spoken of more in another place. He himself discusses the movements of hemorrhage in women or the suppression of the menses original: "ἐπισχέσεις τῶν καθαρσίων." The stopping of the monthly natural cleansing, which ancient doctors believed led to an accumulation of harmful humors., in the treatise on the smallest things, in which he especially speaks of this. What follows concerns the natural principles of the entire cosmos and stays with our concerns before the elements, especially those underlying the same ages... toward the wretched residue of the blood, or even some excess or thickness or stickiness for the sake of the blood's yearly cycle. The character is also taken into account. For when it is first explained medically, blood nevertheless does not exist in bloodless animals. For in the matter, as before. In this phrase, then, in its peculiarity, first then: the part beside the... and likewise from the relation of the sun to bodies. And the perspiration that will occur under the heat. For the parotids are an excess of whatever moisture exists, or a thicker residue in the body, outside the ears; or it is necessary for doctors to see the growths in the ears. Just as if this were known by doctors in succession, who also thought this was said more specifically. When such a notion of those being treated original: "ἰατρευομένων." Refers to the patients under the care of a physician. is first called the nature of the disease of the blood, placed irregularly from the following things, it will be irregular in the body. It is from different things: either blood itself is the principle and source, or it is forms of my own will. Of this also is the principle of the body, the cause being vapor, perspiration, habit, and the natural state of the darkness of the vision. For the parts are accustomed to being warmed in the vision and parts due to burning, whence they also have what is called beauty. But the headaches occur in those with fever when the veins are filled with blood, or are brought toward the heat of the fire, especially in the eyeball. Such things as fill the veins of the respiratory parts with blood.
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We said that those of the species are grape-like in form, which is the greatest thing in the experience of the daily physicians original: "ἐφημεριδῶν ἰατρῶν." Physicians who kept daily records of their patients' progress, a practice rooted in the Hippocratic Epidemics.. That it exists not first in experience, this perhaps belongs to his own arrangement, or to those using some preparatory cause. And they are such: black, very hot, either natural or from some external stumbling block. These blood-related things come before the rest of the hemorrhages, and second, the disturbance. Or from the shape again and the lid, if someone is rowing before the body of the arteries...

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The breadth of the tongue [shows] the so-called burning original: "ἐπίκαυσιν." A parched or scorched appearance of the tongue used to diagnose internal heat., and thus the things agreed upon by doctors: both white and thick. The foundations then [concern] some woman and woman, the shapes?. The complexion, all their hidden things then, by him. Except? in the case of those who are drunk, in images and demonstration. And upon this, the order of the symptoms and the breath original: "πνεῦμα" (pneuma). The vital spirit or breath, considered a primary indicator of health and life force. is greatest. The ears are the signs of the intensification of the strong fever. In excess especially is the removal from the lung beyond. These things our people who participate in the species observe through them. For, for the most part, in each... in the order of the limb and of the time, three causes follow. For every doctor knows the thing from what is familiar before the time; but not everyone who is similar anywhere, so as not to fail in the truth. Immediately together toward the path based on hope and experience. We clearly know the virtue of things to come or those that are unceasing, whenever someone speaks from necessity; but the one who is not this kind of doctor especially, or the best one perhaps, will reflect in the body on such a necessity. Upon these, they would first know both: that an redundant outflow therefore produces them... calling upon the successive causes of the fever. But when he might expend some necessity before himself. For in the case of blood and in the case of the shapes or from something such as in the body itself and the shape of the fever and the parts of the body, and rather the order... one must pay attention to the smoky and black appearance on the tongue. Perhaps the rest in the skin is outside of the phlegm; this might belong to the Syrian [fever], as in the case of the burning fever. Since the idea of such a thing upon this, especially from that of the body, leads the doctors of the subject to see; for it is not upon it more than the same of the Gauls (?) ... from experience. I said this in most things according to nature... the causes follow from our learning. But doctors use the things on the tongue, or in order, not according to nature. And thus first it might be taken toward that of the sick person or according to the nature of the body. We then explained a concise body of those who have been initiated regarding these things... and the malignancy original: "κακοήθεια." A technical term for a disease that is "ill-conditioned" or likely to turn fatal. of the attacks is those who suffer from blood-flow or hemorrhages or fevers... the eyes themselves are turned more toward certain virtues, or the manner... happening with naked whitening. And violent or according to nature, lines toward the color of the plain and of colors on both sides as much as from itself and color... but the heat, and nowhere the vein-cutting. But the pure one [knows] those on the body... hemorrhages occur because of the necessity of the arterial principle. Since the things through the blood are closed, this does not go with them traveling toward the one head of those upon the veins. The same regarding these things of the blood, as it will have the most beautiful need of all. For which reason the best of doctors, in the [state] perhaps where it is white, and from such a color... a witness of the moisture placed there. Or again the parts themselves perhaps draw [moisture] in this way and someone is already known in these cases; which rather stops the things toward the action. ... of the heat or the excess. The density? of the arteries of the bodies...