Note (7) — BOOK III.

7. But if one in such a fever coughs gently, &c.) Siquis autem in hujus modi febre leniter tussit, is neque vehmenti siti conflictari, neque bibere aquam frigidam debet; sed eo modo curandus est, quo in cæteris febribus præcipitur.—All this is omitted in Morgagni’s MS.—Ronsseus suspected it to be interpolated, and it is not to be found in the Pinzian edition, nor the Juntine, nor Florentine.—Ronsseus’s suspicion arose from considering aph. 54. sect. 4.—‘Those that are troubled with dry and gentle coughs in ardent fevers, are not very thirsty.’ Morgagni, Ep. 5. p. 140.—But perhaps this objection might be removed by only reading conflictatur, instead of conflictari.