[p. 125] to deep sleep; having been seized with continual fevers from drinking, the pain was exacerbated;
during the night he, at first, became hot. On the first day, he vomited
some bilious matters, at first yellow, but afterwards of a verdigris-green
color, and in greater quantity; formed faeces passed from the bowels;
passed the night uncomfortably. On the second, deafness, acute fever;
retraction of the right hypochondrium; urine thin, transparent, had
some small substances like semen floating in it; delirium ferox about
mid-day. On the third, in an uncomfortable state. On the fourth, convulsions;
all the symptoms exacerbated. On the fifth, early in the morning,
died.
Explanation of the characters. It is probable that the death of the patient on the fifth day is to be attributed to a phrenitis, with
unfavorable evacuations.
Case 5
Charion, who was lodged at the house of Demaenetus, contracted
a fever from drinking. Immediately he had a painful heaviness of the
head; did not sleep; bowels disordered, with thin and somewhat bilious
discharges. On the third day, acute fever; trembling of the head,
but especially of the lower lip; after a little time a rigor, convulsions;
he was quite delirious; passed the night uncomfortably. On the fourth,
quiet, slept little, talked incoherently. On the fifth, in pain; all
the symptoms exacerbated; delirium; passed the night uncomfortably;
did not sleep. On the sixth, in the same state. On the seventh had
a rigor, acute fever, sweated all over his body; had a crisis. Throughout
the alvine discharges were bilious, scanty, and unmixed; urine thin,
well colored, having cloudy substances floating in it. About the eighth
day, passed urine of a better color, having a white scanty sediment;
was collected, free from fever for a season. On the ninth it relapsed.
About the fourteenth, acute fever. On the sixteenth, vomited pretty
frequently yellow, bilious matters. On the seventeenth had a rigor,
acute fever, sweated, free of fever; had a crisis; urine, after the
relapse and the crisis, well colored, having a sediment; neither was
he delirious in the relapse. On the eighteenth, became a little heated;
some thirst, urine thin, with cloudy substances floating in it; slight
wandering in his mind. About the nineteenth, free of fever, had
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