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slight delirium. On the sixth, stools black, fatty, viscid, fetid;
slept, more collected. On the seventh, tongue dry, thirsty, did not
sleep; was somewhat delirious; urine thin, not of a good color. On
the eighth, stools black, scanty, and compact; slept, became collected;
not very thirsty. On the ninth had a rigor, acute fever, sweated,
a chill, was delirious, strabismus of the right eye, tongue dry, thirsty,
without sleep. On the tenth, much the same. On the eleventh, became
quite collected; free from fever, slept, urine thin about the crisis.
The two following days without fever; it returned on the fourteenth,
then immediately insomnolency and complete delirium. On the fifteenth,
urine muddy, like that which has been shaken after the sediment has
fallen to the bottom; acute fever, quite delirious, did not sleep;
knees and legs painful; after a suppository, had alvine dejections
of a black color. On the sixteenth, urine thin, had a cloudy eneorema,
was delirious. On the seventeenth, in the morning, extremities cold,
was covered up with the bedclothes, acute fever, general sweat, felt
relieved, more collected; not free of fever, thirsty, vomited yellow
bile, in small quantities; formed faeces passed from the bowels, but
soon afterwards black, scanty, and thin; urine thin, not well colored.
On the eighteenth, not collected, comatose. On the nineteenth, in
the same state. On the twentieth, slept; quite collected, sweated,
free from fever, not thirsty, but the urine thin. On the twenty-first,
slight delirium; somewhat thirsty, pain of the hypochondrium, and
throbbing about the navel throughout. On sediment in the urine, quite
collected. Twenty-seventh, pain of the right hip joint; urine thin
and bad, a sediment; all the other symptoms milder. About the twenty-ninth,
pain of the right eye; urine thin. Fortieth, dejections pituitous,
white, rather frequent; sweated abundantly all over; had a complete
crisis.
Explanation of the characters. It is probable that, by means of the
stools, the urine, and the sweat, this patient was cured in forty
days.
Section II
Case 4
Case I. In Thasus, Philistes had headache of long continuance, and
sometimes was confined to bed, with a tendency
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