Note 569 — ON REGIMEN IN ACUTE DISEASES.

This is a general rule of such importance that Galen wonders our author did not embody it in one of his Aphorisms. Galen’s observations on venesection in this commentary, and in his two treatises on this subject, are highly important. It will be remarked that three circumstances are held to form indications of the necessity for bleeding: first, if the disease be of a strong nature; second, if the patient be in the vigor of life; and, third, if his strength be entire.