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The Book of Prognostics

By Hippocrates
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The Book of Prognostics

By Hippocrates

Written 400 B.C.E

Translated by Francis Adams

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Respecting the movement of the hands I have these observations to make: When in acute fevers, pneumonia, phrenitis, or headache, the hands are waved before the face, hunting through empty space, as if gathering bits of straw, picking the nap from the coverlet, or tearing chaff from the wall- all such symptoms are bad and deadly.


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