Of The Epidemics   

throughout. About the twenty-seventh, free of fever; sediment in the

urine; pain in the side. About the thirty-first, was attacked with

fever, bilious diarrhea; slight bilious vomiting on the fortieth.

Had a complete crisis, and was freed from the fever on the eightieth

day.

CASE VI. Cleonactides, who was lodged above the Temple of

Hercules, was seized with a fever in an irregular form; was pained

in the head and left side from the commencement, and had other pains

resembling those produced by fatigue; paroxysms of the fevers

inconstant and irregular; occasional sweats; the paroxysms generally

attacked on the critical days. About the twenty-fourth was cold in the

extremities of the hands, vomitings bilious, yellow, and frequent,

soon turning to a verdigris-green color; general relief. About the

thirtieth, began to have hemorrhage from both nostrils, and this

continued in an irregular manner until near the crisis; did not loathe

food, and had no thirst throughout, nor was troubled with

insomnolency; urine thin, and not devoid of color. When about the

thirtieth day, passed reddish urine, having a copious red sediment;

was relieved, but afterwards the characters of the urine varied,

sometimes having sediment, and sometimes not. On the sixtieth, the

sediment in the urine copious, white, and smooth; all the symptoms

ameliorated; intermission of the fever; urine thin, and well

colored. On the seventieth, fever gone for ten days. On the

eightieth had a rigor, was seized with acute fever, sweated much; a

red, smooth sediment in the urine; and a perfect crisis.

CASE VII. Meton was seized with fever; there was a painful weight in

the loins. Next day, after drinking water pretty copiously, had proper

evacuations from the bowels. On the third, heaviness of the head,

stools thin, bilious, and reddish. On the fourth, all the symptoms

exacerbated; had twice a scanty trickling of blood from the right

nostril; passed an uncomfortable night; alvine discharges like those

on the third day; urine darkish, had a darkish cloud floating in it,