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and in the case of those who did not. For even if
some patients enjoyed slight intermissions, there
followed a quick relapse. A few of them experienced
a crisis, the earliest being about the eightieth day,
some of the latter having a relapse, so that most of
them were still ill in the winter. The greatest
number had no crisis before the disease terminated.
These symptoms occurred in those who recovered
just as much as in those who did not. The illnesses
showed a marked absence of crisis and a great variety ;
the most striking and the worst symptom, which
throughout attended the great majority, was a complete
loss of appetite, especially in those whose
general condition exhibited fatal signs, but in these
fevers they did not suffer much from unseasonable
thirst. After long intervals, with many pains and
with pernicious wasting, there supervened abscessions
either too severe to be endured, or too slight to be
beneficial, so that there was a speedy return of the
original symptoms, and an aggravation of the
mischief.
That is, the abscessions did not carry off the morbid
humours, which spread again throughout the system. |
PART 9
IX. The symptoms from which these patients
suffered were dysenteries and tenesmus, lienteries
also and fluxes. Some had dropsies also, either with
or without these. Whenever any of these attacked
violently they were quickly fatal, or, if mild, they did
no good. Slight eruptions, which did not match the
extent of the diseases and quickly disappeared again,
or swellings by the ears that grew smaller
μωλυόμενα would
mean "remained crude." |
and