Recognizing periods of illness and especially periods of limitation

General periods of illness are sometimes recognized by the type of illness. Thus, dry spasm, epilepsy, sakta, suffocation are very acute diseases, pure three-day fever and burning fever are acute, but not very acute, four-day fever and paralysis are chronic diseases. And sometimes they are recognized by the movement of the disease.

If the attacks are short, this indicates that the limit is near, as happens in the pure tertian fever, the attacks of which last from three to fourteen hours; if the attacks are long, this indicates that the matter is thick and the limit is far away, as happens with an unclean three-day fever. And when there are no attacks, but the matter is sharp, as in synochus, then the disease is acute, but if the matter is cold and thick or thick, then the disease is not acute. The appearance of the patient is also indicative: if his features quickly sharpen, and his face and hypochondrium wrinkle, then the disease is acute, and if his appearance remains as it was, then the disease is not so acute. Diseases are also recognized by the strength of the patient: if weakness comes quickly, then the disease is acute, but if this is not visible, then the disease is not acute. Age and time of year are also indicative: at a hot age and in both warm seasons, the onset of the disease limit accelerates, and at a cold age and in both cold seasons, the disease limit occurs more slowly; the same applies to the terrain. They can also be recognized by their pulse: if the pulse is fast, frequent and large, then the disease is acute, and if not, then it is not acute, and by chills: if the chill lasts a long time, then the disease is more likely chronic, and if for a short time, then the disease is more likely acute; if there is no chill at all, then the illness is the shortest of its kind.

Sometimes periods of illness are recognized by the time of attacks. If the attacks constantly increase and increase the degree of advancement, which becomes more and more, then the disease is in a period of intensification, for some diseases tend to intensify until the end of their term; sometimes these are fevers of the three-day type, and sometimes of the permanent type. If the attacks stopped after progressing and their increase stopped, then the disease has almost reached its limit, and if the attacks lag behind their duration, then the disease is on the decline. Attacks that keep the same hours last a long time.

The quality of periods is also recognized by the intensification of the manifestations of fever, their persistence or weakening, and by the increase in the duration or brevity of attacks, which are sometimes different and dissimilar from each other.

Often periods of illness are recognized by the quality of discharge. If during any attack sweating or diarrhea appears, and the next attack is equal in strength or greater, then the emptying is caused by the abundance of juices, and not by the force of nature, and the disease promises to be long-lasting.

Periods can sometimes be recognized by the degree of maturity of the disease or by signs opposite to maturity, as we mentioned above. For example, if sputum appears, somewhat mature, or urine with some cloudiness, then this is a sign of the beginning of intensification; further, when such symptoms, or their opposites, multiply and become obvious, then this is a period of limit; in the same way, if maturity or immaturity quickly becomes apparent through phlegm or cloud, then know that the period of limit is at hand; if these signs are delayed, then know that the limit is far away.

As for the recognition of particular periods, the time of the onset of an attack is the time when the pulse contracts, and you already know what this means, and the color of the limbs turns pale, and the extreme parts of the body, especially the tip of the ear and nose, become cold until it is not felt heat spill. Sometimes the onset of an attack is accompanied by a change in complexion, lethargy, a feeling of melancholy, slowed movements, hibernation, relaxation of the eyelids, tongue-tiedness, a sensation of goose bumps between the shoulder blades and on the spine; Often the patient begins to feel severe chills, sometimes drooling, twitching in the temples, tinnitus, sneezing, and tension in the body organs. Strength weakens the most at the beginning and at the end of an attack.

As for the period of intensification, the first half is the time when the pulse gradually becomes clearer, larger and faster, and the heat spreads throughout the body equally, and the second half is the time when the heat, spreading equally everywhere, intensifies without ceasing. The limit is the time when the fever and symptoms remain unchanged and the pulse is largest, faster and more frequent, and the recession time is the time when the fever begins to subside and the pulse becomes balanced, and then the time when the body begins to sweat and this leads to the eradication diseases. Often before death, a state similar to a decline occurs, and it seems that the patient has recovered, but this should not be distracted, and it is better to determine what the quality of the pulse is - whether it has become larger and stronger.

If you want, we will give you an example of a three-day fever. Look: a three-day fever in most cases begins with goose bumps, then coldness and chills appear, then the chills calm down, the coldness decreases and the body begins to get hot. Next, the heat levels off, then intensifies, then stops, and finally begins to decrease until it disappears.

Know that the time of illness is prolonged either because of the abundance of matter, or because of its thickness, or because of coldness; sometimes this is facilitated by the coldness of the season, the terrain and the body, the weakness of the innate warmth and the thickening of the skin.