Complete Works of Hippocrates

potions, or by the hot when it overheats, and by the cold when it overcools.

III. Such things have a necessity of occurring when they happen. In wounds, it is necessary for those who have sustained injuries to the thick nerves to become lame. And also if the heads of the muscles are wounded, especially those in the thighs. One dies if one is wounded in the brain, or the spinal marrow, or the liver, or the midriff, or the bladder, or a blood-flowing vein, or the heart. One does not die if wounded in those parts where these members do not exist, but are very far from them. From diseases, the following have a necessity of causing death when they occur: consumption, hydrops dropsy/edema arising under the flesh. And if a woman carrying a fetus is seized by peripneumonia, or burning fever, or pleurisy, or phrenitis, or if erysipelas red skin inflammation/St. Anthony's Fire occurs in the uterus. Those diseases that are doubtful whether they cause death or not are: peripneumonia, burning fever, phrenitis, pleurisy, angina, staphylē inflammation of the uvula, hepatitis, splenitis, nephritis, dysentery. In a woman, a bloody flux. The following are not fatal unless something else is added: kedmata rheumatic/joint pains, melancholia, gout, sciatica, tenesmus, quartan fever, tertian fever, strangury, ophthalmia, leprosy, lichen, arthritis. Many people frequently become mutilated from these. They are deprived of the use of hands and feet, and lose control of their voice, and are paralyzed by black bile.