Judgments about evacuation

Useful evacuation by laxation, vomiting or other means is evacuation after ripening, removing the juice that is needed, carried out with ease and bringing relief afterwards. One of the signs that an evacuation with or without medication has destroyed all the excreted juice is that some other juice begins to come out, and with a bad evacuation it comes to tearing off films, excreting black blood, fetid juice or clear juice; the same thing happens with vomiting.

If evacuation, having begun, turns out to be insufficient, then it should be helped, and if it is excessive, but maturation has not yet begun, then evacuation is not one of those means on the usefulness of which one can rely.

Weak, insignificant evacuation through perspiration, or bleeding from the nose or otherwise indicates that the nature has begun to move, but has no force. If the other signs are bad, it foretells death, and if they are not bad, it indicates that the illness will be long.