[p. 120]eth, free of fever, had a crisis, no sweat, perfectly collected.
About the twenty-seventh, violent pain of the right hip; it speedily
went off. The swellings about the ears subsided, and did not suppurate,
but were painful. About the thirty-first, a diarrhea attended with
a copious discharge of watery matter, and symptoms of dysentery; passed
thick urine; swellings about the ears gone. About the fortieth day,
had pain in the right eye, sight dull. It went away.
Case 11
The wife of Dromeades having been delivered of a female child,
and all other matters going on properly, on the second day after was
seized with rigor and acute fever. Began to have pain about the hypochondrium
on the first day; had nausea and incoherence, and for some hours afterwards
had no sleep; respiration rare, large, and suddenly interrupted. On
the day following that on which she had the rigor, alvine discharges
proper; urine thick, white, muddy, like urine which has been shaken
after standing for some time, until the sediment had fallen to the
bottom; it had no sediment; she did not sleep during the night. On
the third day, about noon, had a rigor, acute fever; urine the same;
pain of the hypochondria, nausea, an uncomfortable night, no sleep;
a coldish sweat all over, but heat quickly restored. On the fourth,
slight alleviation of the symptoms about the hypochondria; heaviness
of the head, with pain; somewhat comatose; slight epistaxis, tongue
dry, thirst, urine thin and oily; slept a little, upon awaking was
somewhat comatose; slight coldness, slept during the night, was delirious.
On the morning of the sixth had a rigor, but soon recovered her heat,
sweated all over; extremities cold, was delirious, respiration rare
and large. Shortly afterwards spasms from the head began, and she
immediately expired.
Case 12
A man, in a heated state, took supper, and drank more than
enough; he vomited the whole during the night; acute fever, pain of
the right hypochondrium, a softish inflammation from the inner part;
passed an uncomfortable night; urine at the commencement thick, red,
but when allowed to stand, had no sediment, tongue dry, and not very
thirsty. On the fourth, acute fever, pains all over. On the fifth,
urine smooth, oily, and
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