الحاوي في الطب (Liber Continens — Part 3)

the kinds of the day. It is not in the matter of that time of dinner enough of it, and [avoid] a bad temperament. When I say the place where this humor is, whether it is hot or cold and abundance the healthy of that which needs to be treated, that is because the management of convalescence is midway between the management of the healthy and the patients. If its treatment is like its ailments in these times and their hours, and the foods and drinks, and the rest of the management, then for the lingering illness, it has a great share, not in treating convalescence, but in the patients. Among its its signs is that he sleeps in the day and stays awake at night, and illnesses are on their conditions and vice versa it became. Among people are those who, when the time for sleep comes, do not sleep, they stay awake, their hands dry, their face withers, and their place of breath is confused from the side of staying awake. When they wake up, there is a pain in their stomach, which is stomach pain. See A small, red circular mark follows, indicating a section break. Kinds of Withering. Know that the bad dry temperament, if it reaches the extreme and becomes [in] one organ, I mean that the sharpness is on all the passages, then there is no medicine or trick for it. That is its stomach, and it is most common in the stomachs of the elderly because they have dried, and therefore they are not able to digest food as it should be. This is for them because of that. As for whoever is afflicted with such a bad temperament in his heart, it leads to withering quickly. This withering is called the fast death. Some of it is the withering that occurs from sadness. This withering whose origin is from the stomach, as for the withering that is its beginning from other organs, then it is longer-lived, [depending on] the danger of that organ. A small, red circular mark follows, indicating a section break. As for whoever is poisoned, it causes withering and his death is quick, except that it...