ABSTRACT
Of the change of sicknesses. The greater number of sicknesses take place during the month of Nisan. In this month black bile appeareth, and men lose their senses through it, and tribulation cometh upon them, and flowings of blood break forth, and there appear diseases of the throat, and the skin of the body cracketh, and festereth, and peeleth off, and [men suffer from] the itch, and inflammation, and spasms, and sores, and pustules. And in summer there come fevers, both slight and acute, and intense thirst, and intermittent fever, and vomit-
Page 538 ing on the ground, I and pain in the ears, and pains in the genital organs, and consurnption, and sores in the mouth. And during the months of autumn there appear fever, and pain in the spleen, and dropsy, and rheum, and emissions of water, and strangury, and pain in the excretory channel, and asthma, and 1zesojanyatha (?), and running of the eyes, and ulcers, and black bile. And in the winter there appear pains in the interior, and pain in the lungs, and palsy of the members, and every kind of trying ailment.
