Note 720 — BOOK III.—OF THE EPIDEMICS.

The account of the origin and progress of consumption here given is, upon the whole, wonderfully correct. Common experience seems to have decided that spring and autumn are the most fatal seasons to phthisical patients. Avicenna makes the remark, which is very important, and deserves to be kept in mind, that by phthisis, in this place, Hippocrates most probably meant hectic fever, connected with disease of the internal viscera, which had been in an inflamed state during the acute attack of the fever. (iii., 1, 3, 67.)