[p. 110]third or fourth day, the disease was moderate at the commencement,
but assumed a violent character about the seventh day. There was a
great number of diseases, and of those affected, they who died were
principally infants, young persons, adults having smooth bodies, white
skins, straight and black hair, dark eyes, those living recklessly
and luxuriously; persons with shrill, or rough voices, who stammered
and were passionate, and women more especially died from this form.
In this constitution, four symptoms in particular proved salutary;
either a hemorrhage from the nose, or a copious discharge by the bladder
of urine, having an abundant and proper sediment, or a bilious disorder
of the bowels at the proper time, or an attack of dysentery. And in
many cases it happened, that the crisis did not take place by any
one of the symptoms which have been mentioned, but the patient passed
through most of them, and appeared to be in an uncomfortable way,
and yet all who were attacked with these symptoms recovered. All the
symptoms which I have described occurred also to women and girls;
and whoever of them had any of these symptoms in a favorable manner,
or the menses appeared abundantly, were saved thereby, and had a crisis,
so that I do not know a single female who had any of these favorably
that died. But the daughter of Philo, who had a copious hemorrhage
from the nose, and took supper unseasonably on the seventh day, died.
In those cases of acute, and more especially of ardent fevers, in
which there is an involuntary discharge of tears, you may expect a
nasal hemorrhage unless the other symptoms be of a fatal type, for
in those of a bad description, they do not indicate a hemorrhage,
but death.
PART 6
Swellings about the ears, with pain in fevers, sometimes when
the fever went off critically, neither subsided nor were converted
into pus; in these cases a bilious diarrhoea, or dysentery, or thick
urine having a sediment, carried off the disease, as happened to Hermippus
of Clazomenae. The circumstances relating to crises, as far as we
can recognize them, were so far similar and so far dissimilar. Thus
two brothers became ill at the same hour (they were brothers of Epigenes,
and lodged near the theatre), of these the elder had a crisis on the
sixth day, and the younger on the seventh,
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