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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    LXXI. Thofe who vomit black matter, thai are averfe to food, delirious, have a flight pain in the pubes, with fierce afpedt, and fliut eyes, ought not to be purged, becaufe it is deflruc- ] tive. For the fame reafon it is improper to produce evacuation in thofe that are tumid, or troubled with dimnefs of fight and vertigo^ Hke perfons fomewhat affeded in mindj or thofe who loathe food, and have loft their co- lour. In fuch, likewife, as are reduced by a fever, if they are affe(5led with fopor. The fubfiance of this Fror. with a variety of other articles, is contained in one of our author's epiftles concerning hellebore; where, among other things, he fays that motion is proper after taking this purge; and chiefly re- commends failing: he obferves, likewife, that evacuation by vomiting is beft adapted where the patient is without fever, has an averfion to L food.
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