[p. 123] which did not fall to the bottom; at night he was delirious.
On the sixth, had jaundice; all the symptoms were exacerbated; had
no recollection. On the seventh, in an uncomfortable state; urine
thin, as formerly; on the following days the same. About the eleventh
day, all the symptoms appeared to be lightened. Coma set in; urine
thicker, reddish, thin substances below, had no sediment; by degrees
he became collected. On the fourteenth, fever gone; had no sweat;
slept, quite collected; urine of the same characters. About the seventeenth,
had a relapse, became hot. On the following days, acute fever, urine
thin, was delirious. Again, on the twentieth, had a crisis; free of
fever; had no sweat; no appetite through the whole time; was perfectly
collected; could not speak, tongue dry, without thirst; deep sleep.
About the twenty-fourth day he became heated; bowels loose, with a
thin, watery discharge; on the following days acute fever, tongue
parched. On the twenty-seventh he died. In this patient deafness continued
throughout; the urine either thick and red, without sediment, or thin,
devoid of color, and, having substances floating in it: he could taste
nothing.
Explanation of the characters. It is probably that it was the suppression
of the discharges from the bowels which occasioned death on the twenty-seventh
day.
Case 3
The man who was lodged in the Garden of Dealces: had heaviness
of the head and pain in the right temple for a considerable time,
from some accidental cause, was seized with fever, and took to bed.
On the second, there was a trickling of pure blood from the left nostril,
but the alvine discharges were proper, urine thin, mixed, having small
substances floating in it, like coarse barley meal, or semen. On the
third, acute fever; stools black, thin, frothy, a livid sediment in
the dejections; slight coma; uneasiness at the times he had to get
up; sediment in the urine livid, and somewhat viscid. On the fourth,
slight vomiting of bilious, yellow matters, and, after a short interval,
of the color of verdigris; a few drops of pure blood ran from the
left nostril; stools the same; urine the same; sweated about the head
and clavicles; spleen enlarged, pain of the thigh on the same side;
loose swelling of the right hypochondrium; at night
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