[p. 140] first days, thirst, insomnolency;
urine well colored, copious, and thin. On the sixth, delirious; no
relief from the warm applications. On the seventh, in a painful state,
for the fever while the pains did not abate, and the cough was troublesome,
and attended with dyspnoea. On the eighth, I opened a vein at the
elbow, and much blood, of a proper character, flowed; the pains were
abated, but the dry coughs continued. On the eleventh, the fever diminished;
slight sweats about the head; coughs, with more liquid sputa; he was
relieved. On the twentieth, sweat, apyrexia; but after the crisis
he was thirsty, and the expectorations were not good. On the twenty-seventh
the fever relapsed; he coughed, and brought up much concocted sputa:
sediment in the urine copious and white; he became free of thirst,
and the respiration was good. On the thirty-fourth, sweated all over,
apyrexia general crisis.
Explanation of the characters. It is probable that the evacuation
of the sputa brought about the recovery on the thirty-fourth day.
Case 9
In Abdera, Heropythus, while still on foot, had pain in the
head, and not long afterwards he took to bed; he lived near the High
Street. Was seized with acute fever of the ardent type; vomitings
at first of much bilious matter; thirst; great restlessness; urine
thin, black, substances sometimes floating high in it, and sometimes
not; passed the night in a painful state; paroxysms of the fever diversified,
and for the most part irregular. About the fourteenth day, deafness;
the fever increased; urine the same. On the twentieth and following
days, much delirium. On the thirtieth, copious hemorrhage from the
nose, and became more collected; deafness continued, but less; the
fever diminished; on the following days, frequent hemorrhages, at
short intervals. About the sixtieth, the hemorrhages ceased, but violent
pain of the hip-joint, and increase of fever. Not long afterwards,
pains of all the inferior rule, that either the fever and deafness
increased, or, pains of the inferior parts were increased. About the
eightieth day, all the complaints gave way, without leaving any behind;
for the urine was of a good color, and had a copious sediment, while
the delirium
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