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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    ( ) ticularly on critical days. Vid. note 79th. In fuch cafes 'vomitings and a difcharge of the belly, by a metajiafis, and evacuation of the humours, may, in fome degree, be advan- tageous, though not fufficiently efficacious. Correfponding to this is the following obfer- vation of Fcefius, fpeaking of aVoVra^if, V?- miius autem et ahi perturbatio, etji humorum tranjpofitione et vaciiatione juvare poJfu?ity dif- tlnSlione tamen indigent^'' CXLII. A flow'of the menfes may be ex- pefted in women affeded with fever, after rigor, attended with a fenfation of lafTitude. Pain of the neck in cafes of this kind indicates an eruption of blood from the noftrils. It is natural that the menftrual flux fliOuld take place in women labouring under the circumftances of the text, which, it is proba- S 4 ble.