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During this period of six months no less than five hundred and sixty-five deaths are recorded under the head of 'morbi vanie. In other words, those men died without having received sufficient medical attention for the determination of even the name of the disease causing death. During the month of August fifty-three cases and fifty-three deaths are recorded as due to marasmus.

There was something of poor Thomas Hood's morbi taste for the ghastly, and the physically repulsive, in his fancy of spending some time during his last illness in drawing a picture of himself dead in his shroud. In his memoirs, published by his children, you may see the picture, grimly truthful: and bearing the legend, He sang the Song of the Shirt.

Nunquam enim hoc convenisse naturae auctori parentique rerum omnium bonarum. Sed hanc utilitatem rei majoris alia quaedam incommoditas extrinsecus consecuta est, ut fieret caput tenuiter munitum et ictibus offensionibusque parvis fragile. Proinde morbi quoque et aegritudines partae sunt, dum salus paritur.

Whoever found such an effect of our discipline? "Faciasne, quod olim Mutatus Polemon? ponas insignia morbi Fasciolas, cubital, focalia; potus ut ille Dicitur ex collo furtim carpsisse coronas, Postquam est impransi correptus voce magistri?"

That form of the disease, however, in which there is swelling from a subtile and liquid material deposited in the soft parts is the more quickly cured. Hence swelling is the best sign of curability. This is most evidently true in podagra, unless the materies morbi, by reason of its scarcity, produces no enlargement of the affected part."

Quoting the words of Rhazes, Gilbert tells us that the materies morbi of gout is, for the most part, crude and bloody phlegm. Rarely is it bilious, and still more rarely, melancholic. The mixture of black bile and blood or bile is very rare, and still rarer a mixture of all the humors according to their proportion in the body.

And this is one of the reasons why one ought to divert the material to another part, especially when the pain is so located that it may be increased at the beginning. For under such conditions we ought to refrain from bleeding, frictions and other treatment which may attract the materies morbi to the part.

During this period of six months no less than five hundred and sixty-five deaths are recorded under the head of 'morbi vanie. In other words, those men died without having received sufficient medical attention for the determination of even the name of the disease causing death. During the month of August fifty-three cases and fifty-three deaths are recorded as due to marasmus.

[Footnote 9: Ad idem genus morbi altera species rarissima ab auctoribus prætervisa referenda videtur, quam non aptius nominari posse putem qu

On the tablet of Charles Stamford, clergyman: 'Mille modis morimur mortaies, nascimur uno: Sunt hominum morbi milie sed una salus.