Alsaharavius recommends the same plan of treatment as the Greeks, when
the disease is connected with a cold intemperament; but when with a hot,
he directs us to have recourse to bleeding, cold fruits, and cooling
applications over the stomach. (Pract. xvi, 11.)
Rhases and Avicenna approve in general of our author’s plan of treatment,
to which, however, they suggest some improvements: when the cause of the
complaint is an acid phlegm, they direct us to give fatty things, with
mustard, pepper, garlic, and the like. When connected with black bile,
they approve of bleeding. When it arises from worms, they, of course,
approve of anthelmintics. Sarac, one of Rhases’ authorities, recommends
emetics and purgatives, with a cupping instrument applied over the
stomach. (Contin. xi.)