Signs of tumors

When an acute fever produces tumors in the armpits or on the limbs, it is bad - worse than if such tumors form first, and are followed by fevers due to putrefaction, although this is also not good. Tumors which form at the root of the ear and do not ripen by suppuration are not good unless they are followed by evacuation: in the absence of both, when the tumors do not ripen and are not accompanied by strong evacuation of any kind, it is a very bad sign. Nor should ripening deceive you if it occurs in an abscess while other juices are not ripened, for this is not enough. After all, such cases occur often, and they think that a decline has set in, but meanwhile the disease kills.

Any tumor or pimple that appears and then goes deeper is not good, unless it opens up, thereby proving the power of nature. But often such appearance and disappearance is habitual for the nature of a given person, and then it does not serve as a very bad sign.