Theses de febre hectica

...[it is] like a lamp with a burnt-out wick.

XXIX.

If there is room for a cure, it lies in two things: in cooling and in moistening.

XXX.

Cooling is prompt but dangerous. Moistening, on the contrary, is safe but slow.

XXXI.

Cooling and moistening agents are taken from those applied externally, from actions to be taken, and from those things which are consumed in any way. Of the first class are air, baths, epithemata medicinal liquids applied with cloths, and other topicals.

XXXII.

If the air is not cold [and] moist, it should be prepared as such by art. Let the floor be sprinkled with cold water; let willow leaves, vine [leaves], flowers of roses, violets, and water lilies be strewn on the ground. But if it is too cold, as in winter, it ought to be heated.

XXXIII.

A bath of sweet water was in great use among the Ancients and utilized with the utmost diligence. There are those who boil herbs in the bath water, namely violets, mallows, lettuces, calves' feet, and lambs' heads until the bones are bared of flesh. Sweat should not be excited in any way. The body should be gently cleansed from a rose or water-lily bath; immersion in cold water is also praised.