GALEN’S ON THE THERAPEUTICS TO GLAUCON

22 Ed. Chart. X. [351.] Ed. Bas. IV. (200.)

...the season of the year, specifically if it is autumn; and the current state of the atmosphere, noting if it is irregular. Likewise, one must inspect the nature of the region and the diseases currently prevalent. One should check if the spleen is enlarged and if irregular fevers preceded the current state. Consider also if the patient is past their prime of life and if the fevers end with sweating. In these fevers, one should not expect the vomiting of yellow bile original: "cholēs xanthēs"; yellow bile was the humor Galen associated with the intense, "boiling" heat of tertian fevers, which occur every third day., just as you would not in daily fevers, because this is a specific trait of tertian fevers. If the signs of fever remain after the feverish attack has subsided, and the pulse becomes slower and rarer than the natural state, then it is clear that such a fever is a quartan one A quartan fever occurs every fourth day and was believed to be caused by black bile..

Chapter 7

You can recognize a quotidian fever A daily or "quotidian" fever was typically attributed to an excess of the humor called phlegm. by these specific signs. Its heat must be of a moister nature with a certain sharpness. This is not felt immediately when the hand is first applied, but only after the hand has remained there for some time. You will perceive a certain smoky heat mixed with much vapor being released. It is as if the fire is being suffocated in a great amount of moisture rather than the fire itself overcoming the material. Furthermore, the pulse strokes in these patients are smaller than those in quartan fevers, to a greater degree than the pulses of quartan fevers are smaller than those of tertian fevers. Furthermore, daily...