BOOK III.

CHAP. I. General division of distempers, 86

II. General diagnostics of acute and chronic, increasing and declining diseases; the difference of regimen in each; and precautions necessary upon the apprehension of an approaching illness, 87

III. Of the several kinds of fevers, 89

IV. Of the different methods of cure, 91

V. Particular directions for giving food in the different species of fevers, 95

VI. The proper times for giving drink to persons in fevers; and the kinds of aliments suited to the several stages of the distempers; together with some general observations, 99

VII. The cure of pestilential, and ardent fevers, 103

VIII. The cure of a semitertian, 105

IX. The cure of slow fevers, 105

X. Remedies for the concomitant symptoms of fevers, 107

XI. Remedies against a coldness of the extremities, preceding a fever, 108

XII. The cure of a shuddering before fevers, 109

XIII. The cure of a quotidian fever, 110

XIV. The cure of a tertian, 111

XV. The cure of a quartan, 112

XVI. The cure of a double quartan, 113

XVII. The cure of a quotidian arising from a quartan, 114

XVIII. Of the several kinds of madness, and their cure, 115

XIX. Of the cardiac disorder, and its cure, 121

XX. Of the lethargy, and its cure, 123

XXI. Of the several species of the dropsy, and their cure, 124

XXII. Of the several species of consumptions, and their cure, 129

XXIII. Of the epilepsy, and its cure, 133

XXIV. Of the jaundice, and its cure, 135

XXV. Of the elephantiasis, and its cure, 136

XXVI. Of apoplectic patients, and their cure, 137

XXVII. Of a palsy, and its cure, 138

Of a pain of the nerves, 139

Of a tremor of the nerves, 139

Of internal suppurations, 140