exhibit food would be injurious. And in all diseases having periodical paroxysms, we must restrict during the paroxysms.

13. Old persons endure fasting most easily; next adults; young persons not nearly so well; and most especially infants; and of those such as are of a particularly lively spirit.

16. A humid diet (diluent, doubtless) is befitting in all febrile diseases and particularly in children and others accustomed to live on such a diet.

SECTION II

I. In whatsoever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.

2. When sleep puts an end to delirium, it is a good symptom.

3. Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.

5. Spontaneous lassitude indicates disease.

6. Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in great measure insensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.

IO. Bodies not properly cleansed, the more you nourish the more you injure.

17. When more food than is proper has been taken, it occasions disease; this is shown by the treatment.

21. Drinking strong wine causes hunger.

22.

Diseases which arise from repletion are cured by depletion; and those that arise from depletion are cured by repletion; and in general diseases are cured by their contraries.

23. Acute diseases come to their crises in fourteen days.

25. It is better that a fever succeed to a convulsion, than a convulsion to a fever.

31. When a person who has recovered from a disease has a good appetite, but his body does not improve in condition, it is a bad symptom.

44. Persons who are naturally very fat are apt to die earlier than those who are slender.

52. When doing everything according to indication, although things do not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not turn to another course while the original appearances remain.

SECTION III

9. In autumn, diseases are most acute, and most mortal on the whole. The spring is the most healthy, and the least mortal.

10. Autumn is a bad season for persons in consumption.

SECTION VII

43. A woman does not become ambidextrous. 60. Fasting should be prescribed for those persons who have humid flesh; for fasting dries bodies.

66. If one gives to a person in fever the same food which is given to a person in good health, what is strength to the one is disease to the other.

82. Persons above forty years of age who are afflicted with frenzy do not readily recover; the danger is less when the disease is cognate to the constitution and age.

The foregoing observations are taken here and there throughout the seven sections in the "Book of Aphorisms," of which there are several hundred, and which we submit without comment.

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THIRD: PERIOD OF ARISTOTLE

CHAPTER III

GREEK MEDICINE (Continued)

Part I.-Epoch of Aristotle

is generally understood that Hippocrates lived to a ripe old age. He certainly died full of honors, even if decorations were lacking. No temples were erected to perpetuate his memory, nor, indeed, were they needed. His books were his monument, conceived by his own brain, written by his own hand. They have been translated into all the principal languages of the world, and they will live to emblazon his name when marble crumbles to dust. Great men of all the centuries since his day have vied to do him honor.

Hippocrates was an epoch-making celebrity. It is not in the order of events that there should be a succession of such characters. Satellites could not long survive the death of planets. When a great luminary disappears there follows a period of darkness. Genius is rarely transmissible from father to son. It is an evolution, and like a meteor surprises the average mortal of the earth with its appearance and brilliancy. It