Note 668 — BOOK I.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

The rapid recovery in this case would seem to be partly attributable to the decided plan of treatment, namely, the copious affusion of hot water on the head. Hippocrates probably had it in view when he wrote the forty-second Aphorism of the Seventh Book: “In fever not connected with bile, if a large quantity of hot water be poured over the head, it proves a resolution of the fever.” Galen points it out as a remarkable circumstance, that in this case the crisis took place without concoction of the urine, in consequence of the hemorrhage from the nose, and the sweating.