Theses medicae de febrium continuarum diagnōsi & therapeia

and taut, the face squalid and lead-colored. The belly is depressed and contracted: you would rightly call it a skeleton. The pulse is, above all, very hard, small, weak, and frequent.

XLIV.
And this simple hectic, not mixed with any other, occurs very rarely: it is wont to follow a poorly treated diaria ephemeral fever.

XLV.
There is indeed another hectic that has putrefaction joined to it. It is that which is born from the inflammation of some poorly treated part, such as the spleen, lungs, stomach, liver, and other parts.

XLVI.
We do not easily recognize an incipient hectic, but once known, we treat it more easily. The other types are not easily treated, but they are very easily recognized.

XLVII.
In the treatment, it must be observed most carefully whether it is a simple hectic fever, or if a putrid fever, erysipelas, or inflammation is joined to it, or if frequent fainting occurs. For these things interfere with the remedies for the Hectic.

XLIIX.
The simple form should not be rashly irritated by any major remedy like bloodletting or purgation. But it must be cooled and moistened, partly by baths, partly by foods, and also by epithems external poultices/compresses.

XLIX.
The foods shall be barley water, diluted broths, purslane, lettuce, and the like; donkey's milk, or a woman's. Vinegar is also mixed into liquid foods, although it might seem harmful because it dries, as also in fainting, the wine of pomegranates, pearls, and the seed of sorrel. In cases of infirm strength, expressions, distillates, and collected essences must be used.

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