[p. 132] ulcerations, boils (phymata),
externally and internally, about the groins. Watery ophthalmies of
a chronic character, with pains; fungous excrescences of the eyelids,
externally and internally, called fig, which destroyed the sight of
many persons. There were fungous growths, in many other instances,
on ulcers, especially on those seated on the genital organs. There
were many attacks of carbuncle (anthrax) through the summer, and other
affections, which are called "the putrefaction" (seps); also large ecthymata, and large tetters (herpetes) in many instances.
Part 8
And many and serious complaints attacked many persons in the region
of the belly. In the first place, tenesmus, accompanied with pain,
attacked many, but more especially children, and all who had not attained
to puberty; and the most of these died. There were many cases of lientery
and of dysentery; but these were not attended with much pain. The
evacuations were bilious, and fatty, and thin, and watery; in many
instances the disease terminated in this way, with and without fever;
there were painful tormina and volvuli of a malignant kind; copious
evacuations of the contents of the guts, and yet much remained behind;
and the passages did not carry off the pains, but yielded with difficulty
to the means administered; for in most cases purgings were hurtful
to those affected in this manner; many died speedily, but in many
others they held out longer. In a word, all died, both those who had
acute attacks and those who had chronic, most especially from affections
of the belly, for it was the belly which carried them all off.
Part 9
All persons had an aversion to food in all the afore-mentioned
complaints to a degree such as I never met with before, and persons
in these complaints most especially, and those recovering from them,
and in all other diseases of a mortal nature. Some were troubled with
thirst, and some not; and both in febrile complaints and in others
no one drank unseasonably or disobeyed injunctions.
Part 10
The urine in many cases was not in proportion to the drink administered,
but greatly in excess; and the badness of the urine voided was great,
for it had not the proper thickness, nor concoction, nor purged properly;
for in many cases purgings
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