Part 6

90. On Fishes 157

91. On the Testacea, or Shellfish 166

92. On the Mollusca 169

93. On the Cartilaginous Fishes ib.

94. On the Cetacea or large Fishes 170

95. On the Properties of Wine 172

96. On Honey, and Hydromel or Honied Water 178

97. On Sleep 180

98. On Watchfulness 181

99. On Somnolency 183

100. The Epistle of Diocles on the Preservation of Health—Diocles to King Antigonus ib.

SECOND BOOK.

1. On Fevers, from the works of Galen and several others 187

2. Of the principal considerations to be inquired into with regard to febrile affections 188

3. From Galen, what to call the commencement of the Disease 189

4. How to know whether the Disease will prove fatal or not ib.

5. How to know if the Disease will be of long duration 193

6. How to know if the Disease will terminate by a Crisis or by Resolution 194

7. On Critical Days ib.

8. That Critical Symptoms appearing at the commencement are unfavorable 198

9. How to judge beforehand of a future Crisis ib.

10. How to recognize a present Crisis 199

11. How to determine whether a past Crisis be favorable 201

12. On the Pulse, from the works of Galen 202

13. On the Alvine Discharges 222

14. On the Indications from the Urine 224

15. On the Indications from the Sputa 228

16. The Diagnosis and Cure of Ephemeral Fevers 229