34- THE LIVER. 



In his third book on the same subject is to be found 

 another case of considerable interest. Hermocrates, 

 says that immortal author, who lived by the ">sK\Y 

 WALL," was seized with fever. He began to have pain 

 in the head and loins ; an empty distension of the 

 hypochondrium ; the tongue at first was parched ; deaf- 

 ness at the commencement ; there was no sleep ; not 

 very thirsty ; urine thick and red ; when allowed to 

 stand it did not subside; alvine discharges very dry, 

 and not scanty. On the fifth day, urine thin, and sub- 

 stances floating in it which did not fall to the bottom ; 

 at nkrht. he was delirious; on t , day he had 



JAUNKK T:. In the forty-second "Aphorism," by the 

 author, a work so celebrated that Suidas, " who 

 lived more than seventeen centuries after the time of 

 the writer, and who no doubt spoke the established 

 opinion of 1. . ,,t hesitate to pronounce 



it to be a performance surpassing tin? genius of man, 

 we find the following : " In cases of Jaundice; 

 a bad symptom when the liver heroines INDU- 

 i>." It may be 1 -known 



pathological fart, that Jaundice attended with Cirrhosis 

 of the liver is necessarily all but hopeless, 

 and this doubtless wa- tn of induration referred to 



by the sa-e philosopher of Cos, 450 years i 



lu the i.'i ' Aphorism" \v r iind the follow- 



ing : " When Jaundice supervenes in fevers before the 

 seventh day it is a ba<i -m. unless there he watery 



s from the bowels." All the Greek authorities 

 confirmed the truth of this prognostic, but the Arabian 

 physicians called it in question. 



Cialen, A.D. 200, in his Commentaries, refers to the 



