[p. 103] the summer was not very sultry, the Etesian winds blew constant,
but quickly afterwards, about the rising of Arcturus, there were again
many rains with north winds. The whole season being wet, cold, and
northerly, people were, for the most part, healthy during winter;
but early in the spring very many, indeed, the greater part, were
valetudinary. At first ophthalmies set in, with rheums, pains, unconcocted
discharges, small concretions, generally breaking with difficulty,
in most instances they relapsed, and they did not cease until late
in autumn. During summer and autumn there were dysenteric affections,
attacks of tenesmus and lientery, bilious diarrhoea, with thin, copious,
undigested, and acrid dejections, and sometimes with watery stools;
many had copious defluxions, with pain, of a bilious, watery, slimy,
purulent nature, attended with strangury, not connected with disease
of the kidneys, but one complaint succeeding the other; vomitings
of bile, phlegm, and undigested food, sweats, in all cases a redundance
of humors. In many instances these complaints were unattended with
fever, and did not prevent the patients from walking about, but some
cases were febrile, as will be described. In some all those described
below occurred with pain. During autumn, and at the commencement of
winter, there were phthisical complaints, continual fevers; and, in
a few cases, ardent; some diurnal, others nocturnal, semi-tertians,
true tertians, quartans, irregular fevers.
PART 2
All the fevers which are described attacked great numbers. The ardent fevers
attacked the smallest numbers, and the patients suffered the least
from them, for there were no hemorrhages, except a few and to a small
amount, nor was there delirium; all the other complaints were slight;
in these the crises were regular, in most instances, with the intermittents,
in seventeen days; and I know no instance of a person dying of causus,
nor becoming phrenitic. The tertians were more numerous than the ardent
fevers, and attended with more pain; but these all had four periods
in regular succession from the first attack, and they had a complete
crisis in seven, without a relapse in any instance. The quartans attacked
many at first, in the form of regular quartans, but in no few cases
a transition from other fevers and diseases into quartans took place;
they were
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