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If the body is habitually lean, or fat, too hot or heavy, or sleep is so disturbed that brief slumber makes one drowsy: or the skin is foully ulcerated, the chest and neck and knees all wet with sweat, languour of spirit weakening the body; and if there is pain in the eyes and breast and heart or vessels of the head, the limbs possessed by shivering, or if one is heavy-hearted and yawns ever and again; then it is sure that sickness is already here or will be soon: the cause of which is excess of noxious humour.
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Du Port, F. (1988). The Signs and Causes of Impending Disease. 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_9
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