[p. 136] On the thirty-fourth, apyrexia;
bowels not confined; and he again recovered his heat. Fortieth, apyrexia,
bowels confined for no long time, aversion to food; had again slight
symptoms of fever, and throughout in an irregular form; apyrexia at
times, and at others not; for if the fever intermitted, and was alleviated
for a little, it immediately relapsed again; he used much and improper
food; sleep bad; about the time of the relapse he was delirious; passed
thick urine at that time, but troubled, and of bad characters; bowels
at first confined, and again loose; slight fevers of a continual type;
discharges copious and thin. On the hundred and twentieth day he died.
In this patient the bowels were constantly from the first either loose,
with bilious, liquid, and copious dejections, or constipated with
hot and undigested faeces; the urine throughout bad; for the most
part coma, or insomnolency with pain; continued aversion to food.
Ardent fever.
Explanation of the characters. It is probable that the weakness produced
by the fever, the phrenitis, and affection of the hypochondrium caused
death on the hundred and twentieth day.
Case 2
In Thasus, the woman who lodged near the Cold Water, on the
third day after delivery of a daughter, the lochial discharge not
taking place, was seized with acute fever, accompanied with rigors.
But a considerable time before delivery she was feverish, confined
to bed, and loathed her food. After the rigor which took place, continual
and acute fevers, with rigors. On the eighth and following days, was
very incoherent, and immediately afterwards became collected; bowels
disordered, with copious, thin, watery, and bilious stools; no thirst.
On the eleventh was collected, but disposed to coma; urine copious,
thin, and black; no sleep. On the twentieth, slight chills, and immediately
afterwards was warm; slight incoherence; no sleep; with regard to
the bowels, in the same condition; urine watery, and copious. On the
twenty-seventh, free from fever; bowels constipated; not long afterwards
violent pain of the right hip-joint for a considerable time; fevers
afterwards supervened; urine watery. On the fortieth, complaints about
the hip-joint better; continued coughs, with copious, watery sputa;
bowels constipated; aversion to food; urine the same; fever not leaving
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