Note 472 — ON THE PROGNOSTICS.
Francis Adams translation
The paragraph on sweats is founded on the Coacæ Prænotiones, 572, 573; but the Prognostics is much fuller than the other. The cold sweats described in this paragraph were called syncoptic by the ancients, and were supposed to be connected with atony of the pores of the skin. See Galen, h. 1., and De Causis Sympt. iii., 9. Stephanus, with rather too much logical parade, gives a good many acute and interesting remarks on this passage. He says that cold sweats are connected with a complete prostration of the innate heat (calidum innatum). (p. 114.)