Theses medicae de febrium continuarum diagnōsi & therapeia

2 to be sent, and

Purgation for the veins is
more correctly preceded
than resisting otherwise

or if there is any excrement in the intestines: this should be excluded with a mild clyster, while the crudity should be removed with a mild medicine before the bloodletting.

XXXIIX.
A diet must be established that cools and moistens significantly, and it should be light and composed mostly of soups.

ON THE HECTIC FEVER.
XXXIX.
The hectic fever is an unnatural heat in the substance of the heart, first adhering and fixed by itself: called hēxis habit/state of being, or as it pleases many, so named from the fact that the febrile heat has taken such deep root that it can now either not be extinguished at all or only with the greatest difficulty.

XL.
It is distinguished into three degrees: first, second, and third. The first is when none, or very little, of the fleshy substance that is ignited has been dissipated. The second is when, with the heat raging more, either most or all of this fleshy substance is consumed. The third degree of the hectic is when that monstrous heat manifestly ravages the primary moisture. Hence it is called marasmodes wasting and aeiphryges ever-burning.

XLI.
The signs of an incipient hectic fever are an equal heat and one without pain, such that the sick person thinks they are apyretos fever-free. The pulse is weak, small, and frequent, in which a greater diastole is felt. One or two hours after ingested food, the heat sharpens, and the pulse becomes more frequent.

XLII.
The signs of the second degree occur when the body is now manifestly melting away. The fat of the urine floats on top, like spider webs; the skin is dry and squalid.

XLIII.
Marasmodes wasting: the eyes are hollow, the temples collapsed, the forehead dry