Theses medicae de febrium continuarum diagnōsi & therapeia

XVII.

They are known by the fact that they do not take hold gradually with preceding distaste for food, or spontaneous lassitude of the body, or heavier sleep, and frequent yawning, but rather they seize the patient suddenly, and are brought about solely by the force of evident causes. No horror shivering/chills, or at most a very light one, fatigues the patient.

XVIII.

The pulse is fast and frequent, but nevertheless ordered and equal, large and strong, unless it arises from sorrow, or fasting, or crudity, or cold.

XIX.

The heat is mild to the touch, pleasant, and full of breath.

XX.

The urines are so much the more colored, and less clear, than they could have fixed before the feverish heat of the liver.

XXI.

The diaria daily fever is aware of no evil symptom, and if it is treated by a prudent hand, it is devoid of all danger, which it only reveals when it has a transition into a putrid fever.

XXII.

From the investigation of the causes, the physician will be able to institute a cure. For if it has drawn its origin from a long stay under the sun, he will cure it by removing the patient from the sun, and by correcting the temperament contracted: if from the constriction of the skin, by procuring free transpiration, so that both excrements may flow away, and the external air may be received.

XXIII.

Let the patient lie down in a cool place, cooled either by itself or by art: let him keep quiet of mind and body, and let him avoid all things that induce heat.

XXIV.

It is resolved for the most part by sweat, from which it would be best to inject a clyster enema, and to repurge the body with some gentle cathartic,