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signified nothing, in some cases appearing at the
joints, especially the hip-joint, in few instances
leaving with signs of crisis, when they quickly
re-established themselves in their original state.
PART 10
X. From all the diseases some died, but the greatest
number from these fevers, | It is not clear to what πάντων and
τούτων refer. Probably
πάντων refers to all the semitertians, and τούτων to the
special type of them described in Chapter IX. |
especially children--those
just weaned, older children of eight or ten years,
and those approaching puberty. These victims
never suffered from the latter symptoms without
the first I have described above, but often the first
without the latter. The only good sign, the most
striking that occurred, which saved very many of
those who were in the greatest danger, was when
there was a change to strangury, into which abscessions
took place. The strangury, too, came mostly
to patients of the ages mentioned, though it did
happen to many of the others, either without their
taking to bed or when they were ill. Rapid and
great was the complete change that occurred in
their case. For the bowels, even if they were
perniciously loose, quickly recovered ; their appetite
for everything returned, and hereafter the fever
abated. But the strangury, even in these cases, was
long and painful. Their urine was copious, thick,
varied, red, mixed with pus, and passed with pain.
But they all survived, and I know of none of these
that died.
PART 11
XI. In all dangerous cases you should be on the
watch for all favourable coctions of the evacuations
from all parts, or for fair and critical abscessions.
Coctions signify nearness of crisis and sure recovery
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