Eight Books on Medicine

Which things move the bowels. 27
Which things bind the bowels. 27
Which things move the urine. 28
Which things induce sleep or excite the senses. 28
Which things either erode, repress, cool, heat, harden, or soften the body. 28

BOOK THREE.

Regarding the types of diseases. 29
How diseases are recognized, and whether they increase, persist, or decrease, and in what manner one who begins to languish should be treated from the start. 29
Regarding the types of fevers. 30
Regarding the different types of treatments. 30
Regarding the species of fevers and their individual treatments, and first, when food should be given to those with a fever. 32
When it is expedient to give drinks to those with a fever. 33
When pestilential fevers should be treated. 34
Treatment of the semi-tertian fever, which is called hemitritaeos a fever with both daily and tertian characteristics. 35
Treatment of slow, lingering fevers. 35
Remedies in fevers for headache, inflammation of the chest, dryness, and roughness of the tongue. 35
Remedies against the chill that precedes a fever. 36
Treatment of the shivering in fevers. 36
Treatment of the daily fever. 37

Treatment of the tertian fever. 37
Treatment of the quartan fever. 37
Treatment of two quartan fevers. 37
Treatment of the daily fever that has resulted from a quartan fever. 38
Regarding the three types of insanity, and first, the treatment of the one the Greeks call phrenitis inflammation of the brain. 38
Treatment of cardiac disease. 40
Regarding lethargy and its treatment. 40
Regarding water under the skin, that is, the dropsy disease. 41
types of consumption

Regarding consumption tabes wasting disease and its species and treatments. 42
Regarding the treatments for the falling sickness epilepsy. 44
Regarding the treatment of the royal disease jaundice. 44
Regarding the treatment of elephantiasis. 45
apoplexy

Regarding those who are stunned struck with stupor and their treatment. 45
Regarding the resolution of the nerves, which is called apoplexy or paralysis. 45

BOOK FOUR.

Regarding the inner parts of the human body. 47
Regarding the treatments of diseases that arise from the head, and first, regarding headache, then the disease that arises around the face, then the resolution of the tongue, and finally catarrh and head colds. 48
Regarding the disease that arises around the face, which the Greeks call cynicus spasmus canine spasm/facial paralysis. 48
Regarding the resolution of the tongue. 49
Regarding catarrh and head colds. 49
Regarding diseases of the neck and their treatments. 50