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expected it the patient have no fatal symptoms
besides ; for when he is in a bad way such weeping
portends not hemorrhage but death.
PART 20
XX. The painful swellings by the ears in fevers
in some cases neither subsided nor suppurated when
the fever ceased with a crisis. They were cured by
bilious diarrhœa, or dysentery, or a sediment of
thick urine such as closed the illness of Hermippus
of Clazomenæ. The circumstances of the crises,
from which too I formed my judgments, were either
similar or dissimilar ; for example, the two brothers,
who fell sick together at the same time, and lay ill
near the bungalow of Epigenes. The elder of these
had a crisis on the sixth day, the younger on the
seventh. Both suffered a relapse together at the
same time with an intermission of five days. After
the relapse both had a complete crisis together on
the seventeenth day. But the great majority had
a crisis on the sixth day, with an intermission of
six days followed by a crisis on the fifth day after the
relapse. Those who had a crisis on the seventh day
had an intermission of seven days, with a crisis on
the third day after the relapse. Others with a crisis
on the seventh had an intermission of three days,
with a crisis on the seventh day after the relapse.
Some who had a crisis on the sixth day had an
intermission of six and a relapse of three, an intermission
of one and a relapse of one, followed by a
crisis ; for example, Euagon the son of Daitharses.
Others with a crisis on the sixth had an intermission
of seven days, and after the relapse a crisis on the
fourth ; for example, the daughter of Aglai+das. Now
most of those who fell ill in this constitution went
through their illness in this manner, and none of
