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...[seve]re, and feels pain throughout the entire body and the head. The urine assumes the color of cinnamon (*darichin*) or brick (*aguṛ*). 5. The fever lasts for several hours, and in the end begins to diminish little by little; the skin softens, and a profuse or moderate sweat comes on. At this time, a drowse (*nəghəzal*, [that is,] falling into a sweet slumber) comes over the patient. 6. When he awakes, he feels none of the symptoms mentioned above, save only a debility (*sust*) of the body. The ague is distinguished from other diseases resembling it, as by the symptoms written above, so also by the urine; for example, when after the fever the urine is reddish in color and a brick-colored sediment (*til*) settles to the bottom. 7. The ague is either quotidian [daily], which comes on mostly in the mornings; or tertian [every other day], which comes on mostly about noontime; or quartan [every two days in between], which comes on once every three days, mostly in the afternoon. 8. If the ague manifests [lit. falls to light] from February until the month of August, it is called the vernal [spring] ague; but that which manifests from August until February is called the autumnal ague. 9. The vernal ague very often passes off of itself, or by the use of mild remedies, or by dietary regimen (*p’ahriz*); but the autumnal [ague] is very often the contrary, and does not pass away even with tested medicines. 10. The ague alone is not perilous, if no other disease be mixed together with it; but for those who have contracted it after having lain abed a long time with another disease, or who have been seized with another disease together with the ague, the ague is perilous and will last long. 11. It very often happens that even a man of a most robust constitution, when seized with a mild ague, falls at last into a dire straits, and the ague even becomes the cause of his death, or turns into a protracted disease; the reason for this is the patient's disorderly eating and drinking, and the vulgar use of contrary medicines. 12. When the ague manifests, one must not administer medicine immediately unt[il]...