The Prognostics and Prorrhetics of Hippocrates; translated from the original Greek: with large annotations, critical and explanatory: to which is prefixed a short account of the life of Hippocrates / by John Moffat, M.D.

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M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]
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Credit: The Prognostics and Prorrhetics of Hippocrates; translated from the original Greek: with large annotations, critical and explanatory: to which is prefixed a short account of the life of Hippocrates / by John Moffat, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fi Jifis milh merito fedetur^ After what has been obferved, therefore, not only here, but likewife on Fror. 43 and 52, it would almoft appear needlefs to bring more proofs of the docftrine contained in the text. We lhall, Jiowever, adduce two quotations from Galen's commentary on the Fror. He expreffes him- felf to the following purport: viz. That when thirft ceafes neither by fweating, 'vomiting, nor any other critical evacuation, the dijpo- Jition does not ceafcy but the Jenjation is ob- /cured. In fuch a cafe, he adds that it is a bad mptom. Tbto yivoy.evov vk dyoc^ov Idrl crrijj.iiov'* and. again TruvTotug S'l to Tj-ai/ftrSai TfAs'wf TYi? ^A]/«j/ tv c^eVj vo<rv(^oc<n'' the clear meaning of which is, that in acute difeafes wheii thtjjl entirely ceajes, it is a bad indication. LVIII. Copious and profufe fweatlng, in acute fevers, is a bad fymptom. If
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