[p. 109]most the bowels were disordered with thin and bilious
dejections; and many, after passing through the other crises, terminated
in dysenteries, as happened to Xenophanes and Critias. The urine was
watery, copious, clear, and thin; and even after the crises, when
the sediment was natural, and all the other critical symptoms were
favorable, as I recollect having happened to Bion, who was lodged
in the house of Silenus, and Critias, who lived with Xenophanes, the
slave of Areton, and the wife of Mnesistratus. But afterwards all
these were attacked with dysentery. It would be worth while to inquire
whether the watery urine was the cause of this. About the season of
Arcturus many had the crisis on the eleventh day, and in them the
regular relapses did not take place, but they became comatose about
this time, especially children; but there were fewest deaths of all
among them.
PART 5
About the equinox, and until the season of the Pleiades, and at
the approach of winter, many ardent fevers set in; but great numbers
at that season were seized with phrenitis, and many died; a few cases
also occurred during the summer. These then made their attack at the
commencement of ardent fevers, which were attended with fatal symptoms;
for immediately upon their setting in, there were acute fever and
small rigors, insomnolency, aberration, thirst, nausea, insignificant
sweats about the forehead and clavicles, but no general perspiration;
they had much delirious talking, fears, despondency, great coldness
of the extremities, in the feet, but more especially in their hands:
the paroxysms were on the even days; and in most cases, on the fourth
day, the most violent pains set in, with sweats, generally coldish,
and the extremities could not be warmed, but were livid and rather
cold, and they had then no thirst; in them the urine was black, scanty,
thin, and the bowels were constipated; there was an hemorrhage from
the nose in no case in which these symptoms occurred, but merely a
trifling epistaxis; and none of them had a relapse, but they died
on the sixth day with sweats. In the phrenitic cases, all the symptoms
which have been described did not occur, but in them the disease mostly
came to a crisis on the eleventh day, and in some on the twentieth.
In those cases in which the phrenitis did not begin immediately, but
about the
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