if there be rains in
autumn; if the winter be mild, neither very tepid nor unseasonably cold, and if in spring the rains be seasonable, and so
also in summer, the year is likely to prove healthy. But if the winter be dry and northerly, and the spring showery and
southerly, the summer will necessarily be of a febrile character, and give rise to ophthalmies and dysenteries. For when
suffocating heat sets in all of a sudden, while the earth is moistened by the vernal showers, and by the south wind, the
heat is necessarily doubled from the earth, which is thus soaked by rain and heated by a burning sun, while, at the same
time, men’s bellies are not in an orderly state, nor the brain properly dried; for it is impossible, after such a spring,
but that the body and its flesh must be loaded with humors, so that very acute fevers will attack all
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