Of The Epidemics   

spasms, after the manner of paraplegia; was quite incoherent; passed

an uncomfortable night; did not sleep; disorder of the bowels,

attended with bilious, On the fourth, recovered the use of her tongue;

spasms of the same parts, and general pains remained; swelling in

the hypochondrium, accompanied with pain; did not sleep, was quite

incoherent; bowels disordered, urine thin, and not of a good color. On

the fifth, acute fever; pain of the hypochondrium, quite incoherent;

alvine evacuations bilious; towards night had a sweat, and was freed

from the fever. On the sixth, recovered her reason; was every way

relieved; the pain remained about the left clavicle; was thirsty,

urine thin, had no sleep. On the seventh trembling, slight coma,

some incoherence, pains about the clavicle and left arm remained; in

all other respects was alleviated; quite coherent. For three days

remained free from fever. On the eleventh, had a relapse, with rigor

and fever. About the fourteenth day, vomited pretty abundantly bilious

and yellow matters, had a sweat, the fever went off, by coming to a

crisis.

CASE XIV. Melidia, who lodged near the Temple of Juno, began to feel

a violent pain of the head, neck, and chest. She was straightway

seized with acute fever; a slight appearance of the menses;

continued pains of all these parts. On the sixth, was affected with

coma, nausea, and rigor; redness about the cheeks; slight delirium. On

the seventh, had a sweat; the fever intermitted, the pains remained. A

relapse; little sleep; urine throughout of a good color, but thin; the

alvine evacuations were thin, bilious, acrid, very scanty, black,

and fetid; a white, smooth sediment in the urine; had a sweat, and

experienced a perfect crisis on the eleventh day.

BOOK II. Sect. I

CASE I. Pythion, who lived by the Temple of the Earth, on the

first day, trembling commencing from his hands; acute fever, delirium.

On the second, all the symptoms were exacerbated. On the third, the

same. On the fourth alvine discharges scanty, unmixed, and bilious. On