Theses medicae de febrium continuarum diagnōsi & therapeia

which dry and heat immoderately.

LIIX.
The two main pathognomonic signs of Causus are inexpugnable thirst and a scorching heat. Also, there is tossing of the body, a dry, rough, black tongue, delirium, perpetual wakefulness, and thick, turbid urine.

LIX.
This disease kills very swiftly on the fourth or sixth day, when it is born from pure bile. Therefore, if the skin becomes squalid, if the patient picks at threads, collects the bedclothes, breathes with difficulty, and other things which are described as deadly by Hippocrates in Book 2 of the Prognostics are present: it should not be touched, but left with a prognosis.

LX.
It differs from Synochus because the latter is generated from putrefied blood, while the burning fever is generated from bile: also in its exacerbation.

LXI.
It is judged by hemorrhage, vomiting, sweat, excretions, and sometimes shivering. Hemorrhage is expected if the ears and neck are red and the nostrils itch. Signs of vomiting are a shivering of the lower parts, inconstancy of the lower lip, and shallow breathing. There are no proper signs for other excretions.

LXII.
This bile must be purged and extinguished: but one must use bloodletting with great caution, which the refined body rejects. However, where the numbers for bloodletting agree, blood can be drawn even to the point of fainting, by the authority of Galen.

LXIII.
One may use mild clysters that extinguish the heat of the fever, and some convenient cholagogue bile-expelling cathartic, such as cassia or rhubarb. But the greatest part of the cure consists in extinguishing the bile. It is extinguished by cooling and moistening agents, both taken internally and applied externally. Syrups, juleps, apozemes, liniments, and epithems.

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