Theses de sudore

or death. Hippocrates, Epidemics 1.23, 26, & 27; Prorrheticon 2.7; Aphorisms 4.37, 42, 56.

LIIII.
Thick sweat (unless it succeeds a thin one) indicates obstructions and symptoms of crudity. Hence we necessarily predict the length of the disease.

LV.
The same must be said of thin sweat, which demonstrates a large quantity of matter, not pure (as some think), but useless, which cannot be cooked, and shows the weakness of innate heat.

LVI.
Much sweat signifies a long disease, or, if it happens with a weakness of strength, syncope or death: as in autumnal erratic fevers and in that which is called τυφώδης typhus-like: likewise in suppurated cases, and also in those whom diarrhea or a long-lasting Lientery intestinal flux, with vomiting and anorexia, has vexed in a chronic disease: likewise in acute diseases when the disease is not resolved. In the healthy, it teaches of more copious drink, fullness of the body, thinness of the skin, and copious heat and humor of the liver and spleen.

Consumption, hectic fever, and spasm follow copious sweats, especially if they are symptomatic, from the attrition of strength and exhaustion: because the parts that need to be nourished are deprived of a constant ἀναθυμιάσει exhalation/vital heat, and therefore of the appropriate juice, which they allow to flow away together with the ichor.

LVII.
Little sweat indicates the long duration of the disease, dryness of the body, the μετάστασιν metastasis/transfer of humors into other parts, whence comes either hemorrhage, or looseness of the bowels, or ἀποστήματα abscesses, or, if the symptoms increase, death. Likewise, ἐπιδρώσις sweating upon the skin/beading sweat portends the agony of death in cases of suppuration, symptomatic flow of blood, in those with apoplexy, and in pestilential fevers, due to the resolution of the parts.

LVIII.
A warm sweat is always more salutary than a cold one, especially if it is pressed out of the cold matter in chronic diseases.