Judgments about perspiration

Perspiration marks an excellent crisis in acute diseases, as well as in chronic mucous fevers in people suffering from dangerous tumors and tumors in the viscera.

Perspiration can be abundant either because of the matter, when there is a lot of it and it is liquid, or depending on the strength, when the expelling force increases or the retaining force weakens, or on the condition of the ducts, if they expand due to various reasons for the expansion, and perspiration is scant when there is reasons opposite to those indicated. If the perspiration is wiped away, it flows more abundantly, and if it is left, it stops.

Those organs that sweat the most are those that contain more matter causing the disease, and the organs that do not sweat are those organs where there is no matter or where some cause that causes narrowing of the pores has prevailed. So, for example, the side on which the patient lies, in most cases, sweats little, because it is pressed, and therefore the ducts in it are dry, since moisture does not flow to them and does not pour out of them. Perspiration on the back parts of the body, for example, on the back, is more abundant than on the organs located in front, that is, say, on the chest; The upper organs, especially the head, sweat more than the lower ones.