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PART 6
VI. Now the ardent fevers attacked the fewest
persons, and these were less distressed than any
of the other sick. There was no bleeding from the
nose, except very slight discharges in a few cases,
and no delirium. All the other symptoms were
slight. The crises of these diseases were quite
regular, generally in seventeen days, counting the
days of intermission, and I know of no ardent fever
proving fatal at this time, nor of any phrenitis.
The tertians were more numerous than the ardent
fevers and more painful. But all these had four
regular periods from the first onset, had complete
crises in seven, and in no case relapsed. But the
quartans, while in many instances they began at first
with quartan periodicity, yet in not a few they became
quartan by an abscession from other fevers or illnesses. | There are
often mixed infections in malaria. If the
quartan be one of these, being the longest it outlasts the
others. So the disease appears to have turned into a
quartan. |
They were protracted, as quartans usually
are, or even more protracted than usual. Many
fell victims to quotidians, night fevers, or irregular
fevers, and were ill for a long time, either in bed
or walking about. In most of these cases the fevers
continued during the season of the Pleiades or even
until winter. In many patients, especially children,
there were convulsions and slight feverishness from
the beginning ; sometimes, too, convulsions supervened
upon fevers. Mostly these illnesses were
protracted, but not dangerous, except for those who
from all other causes were predisposed to die.
PART 7
VII. But those fevers which were altogether continuous
and never intermitted at all, but in all cases
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