[p. 142]talking, despondency, slight fever; in the
morning, frequent spasms, and when they ceased, she was incoherent
and talked obscurely; pains frequent, great and continued. On the
second, in the same state; had no sleep; fever more acute. On the
third, the spasms left her; but coma, and disposition to sleep, and
again awaked, started up, and could not contain herself; much incoherence;
acute fever; on that night a copious sweat all over; apyrexia, slept,
quite collected; had a crisis. About the third day, the urine black,
thin, substances floating in it generally round, did not fall to the
bottom; about the crisis a copious menstruation.
Case 12
In Larissa, a young unmarried woman was seized with a fever
of the acute and ardent type; insomnolency, thirst; tongue sooty and
dry; urine of a good color, but thin. On the second, in an uneasy
state, did not sleep. On the third, alvine discharges copious, watery,
and greenish, and on the following days passed such with relief. On
the fourth, passed a small quantity of thin urine, having substances
floating towards its surface, which did not subside; was delirious
towards night. On the sixth, a great hemorrhage from the nose; a chill,
with a copious and hot sweat all over; apyrexia, had a crisis. In
the fever, and when it had passed the crisis, the menses took place
for the first time, for she was a young woman. Throughout she was
oppressed with nausea, and rigors; redness of the face; pain of the
eyes; heaviness of the head; she had no relapse, but the fever came
to a crisis. The pains were on the even days.
Case 13
Apollonius, in Abdera, bore up (under the fever?) for some
time, without betaking himself to bed. His viscera were enlarged,
and for a considerable time there was a constant pain about the liver,
and then he became affected with jaundice; he was flatulent, and of
a whitish complexion. Having eaten beef, and drunk unseasonably, he
became a little heated at first, and betook himself to bed, and having
used large quantities of milk, that of goats and sheep, and both boiled
and raw, with a bad diet otherwise, great mischief was occasioned
by all these things; for the fever was exacerbated, and of the food
taken scarcely any portion worth mentioning was passed from the bowels;
the urine was thin and scanty; no sleep; troublesome
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