EPIDEMICS I
FIRST CONSTITUTION
PART 1
I. IN Thasos during autumn, about the time of
the equinox to near the setting of the Pleiades,
ὑπδ in
expressions denoting time seems in Hippocrates to
mean "about" or "during." The period is roughly from
September 21 to November 8. |
there were many rains, gently continuous, with
southerly winds. Winter southerly,That is, the winds were generally
from the south, and
such north winds as blew were light. | north winds
light, droughts ; on the whole, the winter was
like a spring. Spring southerly and chilly ; slight
showers. Summer in general cloudy. No rain.
Etesian winds few, light and irregular.
The whole weather proved southerly, with droughts,
but early in the spring, as the previous constitution
had proved the opposite and northerly, a few patients
suffered from ardent fevers, and these very mild,
causing hemorrhage in few cases and no deaths.
Many had swellings beside one ear, or both ears, in
most cases unattended with fever, Or, punctuating after ̂̔ωτα
and πλείστοισιν, "There were
swellings beside the ears, in many cases on one side, but in
most on both." The epidemio was obviously mumps. | so that confinement
to bed was unnecessary. In some cases there was
slight heat, but in all the swellings subsided without
causing harm ; in no case was there suppuration
such as attends swellings of other origin. This was
the character of them :--flabby, big, spreading, with
neither inflammation nor pain ; in every case they
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