[p. 56] to the time, and each additional
period of the diseases, as they proceed to a crisis. And in women,
after parturition, the crises proceed agreeably to the same ratio.
PART 21
Strong and continued headaches with fever, if any of the deadly symptoms
be joined to them, are very fatal. But if without such symptoms the
pain be prolonged beyond twenty days, a discharge of blood from the
nose or some abscess in the inferior parts may be anticipated; but
while the pain is recent, we may expect in like manner a discharge
of blood from the nose, or a suppuration, especially if the pain be
seated above the temples and forehead; but the hemorrhage is rather
to be looked for in persons younger than thirty years, and the suppuration
in more elderly persons.
PART 22
Acute pain of the ear, with continual and strong fever, is to be dreaded;
for there is danger that the man may become delirious and die. Since,
then, this is a hazardous spot, one ought to pay particular attention
to all these symptoms from the commencement. Younger persons die of
this disease on the seventh day, or still earlier, but old persons
much later; for the fevers and delirium less frequently supervene
upon them, and on that account the ears previously come to a suppuration,
but at these periods of life, relapses of the disease coming on generally
prove fatal. Younger persons die before the ear suppurates; only if
white matter run from the ear, there may be hope that a younger person
will recover, provided any other favorable symptom be combined.
PART 23
Ulceration of the throat with fever, is a serious affection, and if
any other of the symptoms formerly described as being bad, be present,
the physician ought to announce that his patient is in danger. Those
quinsies are most dangerous, and most quickly prove fatal, which make
no appearance in the fauces, nor in the neck, but occasion very great
pain and difficulty of breathing; these induce suffocation on the
first day, or on the second, the third, or the fourth. Such as, in
like manner, are attended with pain, are swelled up, and have redness
(erythema) in the throat, are indeed very fatal, but more protracted
than
