De morborum temporibus, Principum Medicorum Aphorismoi

XXXIII.

The times of ophthalmia and catarrh are taken from the flow, quantity, and quality of the humor.

XXXIV.

The times taken from pathognomonic symptoms are described by their greater or lesser vehemence.

1. Around the beginning and the end, all things are milder: around the vigor, they are more vehement.
2. These belong to diseases whose symptoms are vehement; for which reason neither hectic nor exquisite ephemera have them.
3. For diseases that have attained concoction before the vigor and have made imperfect πλέοας pleuritic/excessive flows, the highest vigors have smaller symptoms, so that purging at that time is not contrary to reason.
4. The highest vigor of complete concoction is the first time, even if the greatest magnitude of the disease is not present.
5. The oppression that occurs in the beginning of almost every disease does not show its magnitude, but follows the quantity, sluggishness, thickness, and coldness of the matter.

XXXV.

The triple times coincide when the essence of the disease is compared with the matter of the whole disease and the pathognomonic symptoms.

1. However, parity between the quantity of the matter and the disease must be maintained here.
2. In a synochus continuous fever that is παρακμαζούσῃ in declination, there is not a declination of the matter, because it has not yet been overcome: but there is a declination of the fever, because more is dissipated than is newly inflamed.
3. The pathognomonic symptoms are sometimes said to be stronger, sometimes weaker, by reason of the faculty governing the body and the essence.

XXXVI.

They do not coincide if the matter is new: if the symptoms are common.

1. New matter begins to act while the disease is perchance in its augmentation.
2. The times of common symptoms coincide with the times of the essence when the disease is absolved by a single κρίσει crisis: otherwise, when the matter is concocted and excreted bit by bit.

Thus far we have treated the genera of times through their principles, differences, and affections. With the use of these in diet, pharmacy, and surgery reserved for elsewhere, excluded by the narrowness of time, and mindful of those who argue from this place in the custom, we fix our foot here: especially since

original Greek: "καιρὸς δ' ἐπὶ πᾶσιν ἄριστος" The right time is best in all things.