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The illness will be very long if not too damaging, and the signs are these. If the body is now hot, now cold and the fever brings on sweat, and if the colour is now one thing and then another and there is not too much wasting: and if the urine poured in bottles is pure and the sediment is white and turns red in the vessel or, if already red, is then made white by phlegm: then divers humours in the body have these effects and they will long endure before being cured by Nature and by Apollo’s art.
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Du Port, F. (1988). The Signs and Causes of a Long Illness. In: Diehl, H. (eds) The Decade of Medicine or The Physician of the Rich and the Poor. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73715-2_17
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