Medical Aphorism

Category - (Nos - 41)
SNo	Aphorism
21	We must purge and move such humors as are concocted, not such as are unconcocted, unless they are struggling to get out, which is mostly not the case.
22	Those things which require to be evacuated should be evacuated, wherever they most tend, by the proper outlets.
23	When things are at the crisis, or when they have just passed it, neither move the bowels, nor make any innovation in the treatment, either as regards purgatives or any other such stimulants, but let things alone.
24	Neither gives nor enjoin anything to persons during periodical paroxysms, but abstract from the accustomed allowance before the crisis.
25	Invalids bear food worst during summer and autumn, most easily in winter, and next in spring.
26	We must consider also, in which cases food is to be given once or twice a day, and in greater or smaller quantities, and at intervals. Something must be conceded to habit, to season, to country, and to age.
27	A humid regimen is befitting in all febrile diseases, and particularly in children, and others accustomed to live on such a diet.
28	In winter and spring the bowels are naturally the hottest, and the sleep most prolonged; at these seasons, then, the most sustenance is to be administered; for as the belly has then most innate heat, it stands in need of most food. The well-known facts with regard to young persons and the athlete prove this.
29	Growing bodies have the most innate heat; they therefore require the most food, for otherwise their bodies are wasted. In old persons the heat is feeble, and therefore they require little fuel, as it were, to the flame, for it would be extinguished by much. On this account, also, fevers in old persons are not equally acute, because their bodies are cold.
30	Old persons endure fasting most easily; next, adults; young persons not nearly so well; and most especially infants, and of them such as are of a particularly lively spirit.

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