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were continual, but not all over the body. Severe
chill in the extremities, which with difficulty
recovered their warmth. Bowels disordered, with
bilious, scanty, unmixed, thin, smarting stools,
causing the patient to get up often. Urine either
thin, colourless, | Throughout Epidemics ὰ̓χρωσ2 may
mean, not merely
"without colour," but "of bad colour." It certainly has this
meaning in Airs Waters Places, VII, l. ii. See p. 85. |
unconcocted
and scanty, or thick
and with a slight deposit, not settling favourably,
but with a crude and unfavourable deposit. The
patients frequently coughed up small, concocted
sputa, brought up little by little with difficulty.
Those exhibiting the symptoms in their most
violent form showed no concoction at all, but
continued spitting crude sputa. In the majority
of these cases the throat was throughout painful
from the beginning, being red and inflamed. Fluxes
slight, thin, pungent. Patients quickly wasted away
and grew worse, being throughout averse to all food
and experiencing no thirst. Delirium in many cases
as death approached. Such were the symptoms of
the consumption.
PART 3
III. But when summer came, and during autumn
occurred many continuous but not violent fevers, which
attacked persons who were long ailing without
suffering distress in any other particular manner ; for
the bowels were in most cases quite easy, and hurt
to no appreciable extent. Urine in most cases of
good colour and clear, but thin, and after a time near
the crisis it grew concocted. Coughing was slight,
and caused no distress. No lack of appetite ; in fact
it was quite possible even to give food. In general
the patients did not sicken, as did the consumptives,
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