[p. 111]and both had a relapse
at the same hour; it then left them for five days, and from the return
of the fever both had a crisis together on the seventeenth day. Most
had a crisis on the sixth day; it then left them for six days, and
from the relapse there was a crisis on the fifth day. But those who
had a crisis on the seventh day, had an intermission for seven days;
and the crisis took place on the third day after the relapse. Those
who had a crisis on the sixth day, after an interval of six days were
seized again on the third, and having left them for one day, the fever
attacked them again on the next and came to a crisis, as happened
to Evagon the son of Daetharses. Those in whom the crisis happened
on the sixth day, had an intermission of seven days, and from the
relapse there was a crisis on the fourth, as happened to the daughter
of Aglaidas. The greater part of those who were taken ill under this
constitution of things, were affected in this manner, and I did not
know a single case of recovery, in which there was not a relapse agreeably
to the stated order of relapses; and all those recovered in which
the relapses took place according to this form: nor did I know a single
instance of those who then passed through the disease in this manner
who had another relapse.
PART 7
In these diseases death generally happened on the sixth day, as
with Epaminondas, Silenus, and Philiscus the son of Antagoras. Those
who had parotid swellings experienced a crisis on the twentieth day,
but in all these cases the disease went off without coming to a suppuration,
and was turned upon the bladder. But in Cratistonax, who lived by
the temple of Hercules, and in the maid servant of Scymnus the fuller,
it turned to a suppuration, and they died. Those who had a crisis
on the seventh day, had an intermission of nine days, and a relapse
which came to a crisis on the fourth day from the return of the fever,
as was the case with Pantacles, who resided close by the temple of
Bacchus. Those who had a crisis on the seventh day, after an interval
of six days had a relapse, from which they had a crisis on the seventh
day, as happened to Phanocritus, who was lodged with Gnathon the fuller.
During the winter, about the winter solstices, and until the equinox,
the ardent fevers and frenzies prevailed, and many died. The crisis,
however, changed, and
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