[p. 101]the testicles, and sometimes both; some of
these cases were accompanied with fever and some not; the greater
part of these were attended with much suffering. In other respects
they were free of disease, so as not to require medical assistance.
PART 2
Early in the beginning of spring, and through the summer, and towards
winter, many of those who had been long gradually declining, took
to bed with symptoms of phthisis; in many cases formerly of a doubtful
character the disease then became confirmed; in these the constitution
inclined to the phthisical. Many, and, in fact, the most of them,
died; and of those confined to bed, I do not know if a single individual
survived for any considerable time; they died more suddenly than is
common in such cases. But other diseases, of a protracted character,
and attended with fever, were well supported, and did not prove fatal:
of these we will give a description afterwards. Consumption was the
most considerable of the diseases which then prevailed, and the only
one which proved fatal to many persons. Most of them were affected
by these diseases in the following manner: fevers accompanied with
rigors, of the continual type, acute, having no complete intermissions,
but of the form of the semi-tertians, being milder the one day, and
the next having an exacerbation, and increasing in violence; constant
sweats, but not diffused over the whole body; extremities very cold,
and warmed with difficulty; bowels disordered, with bilious, scanty,
unmixed, thin, pungent, and frequent dejections. The urine was thin,
colorless, unconcocted, or thick, with a deficient sediment, not settling
favorably, but casting down a crude and unseasonable sediment. Sputa
small, dense, concocted, but brought up rarely and with difficulty;
and in those who encountered the most violent symptoms there was no
concoction at all, but they continued throughout spitting crude matters.
Their fauces, in most of them, were painful from first to last, having
redness with inflammation; defluxions thin, small and acrid; they
were soon wasted and became worse, having no appetite for any kind
of food throughout; no thirst; most persons delirious when near death.
So much concerning the phthisical affections.
PART 3
In the course of the summer and autumn many fevers of the
