is flushed in the morning with warm water, while some impurities
remain upon the surface, the putrid matter will sink to the bottom
(_sputum fundum petens_), and the indications are fatal. Likewise
sharpness of the nose, hollow eyes, slender nails, falling hair,
flattened temples and diarrhoea are of evil omen. These patients
converse while dying, and die conversing (_moriendo loquentur, sed
loquendo moriuntur_). Gilbert, of course, supplies a formidable array
of remedies for the disease, but tells us that the "very latest" is
cauterization over the clavicles (_Novissimum autem consilium est
cauterium in furcula pectoris_).

The varieties of difficulty of breathing are classified under the
titles of asma, dispnea, orthomia, hanelitus and sansugium. The
last title is given to a condition in which, as Gilbert says, "A
superfluous humor is abundant in the superficies of the lung, which
compresses that organ and renders it unable to dilate in inspiration.
Hence it labors in inspiration like a leech, from which the dyspnea
derives its name."

Under the single title of "_cardiaca passio_" are included all
possible diseases of the heart. The symptoms of this disease are
said to be "palpitation, twitching of the limbs (_saltus membrorum_),
perspiration, weakness of the nerves, facial pallor, weakness of the
body as in hectic fever or phthisis, excessive pain and faintness over
the precordia, a disposition to sleep and often constipation." The
treatment is, of course, entirely symptomatic.

Diseases of the digestive apparatus are discussed under the headings
of difficulties of deglutition, canine appetite, bolismus (boulimia),
disturbances of thirst, eructations, hiccup, nausea and anorexia,