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the fifth, all the symptoms were exacerbated, the tremors remained;

little sleep, the bowels constipated. On the sixth sputa mixed,

reddish. On the seventh, mouth drawn aside. On the eighth, all the

symptoms were exacerbated; the tremblings were again constant;

urine, from the beginning to the eighth day, thin, and devoid of

color; substances floating in it, cloudy. On the tenth he sweated;

sputa somewhat digested, had a crisis; urine thinnish about the

crisis; but after the crisis, on the fortieth day, an abscess about

the anus, which passed off by a strangury.

Explanation of the characters. It is probably that the great

discharge of urine brought about the resolution of the disease, and

the cure of the patient on the fortieth day.

CASE II. Hermocrates, who lived by the New Wall, was seized with

fever. He began to have pain in the head and loins; an empty

distention of the hypochondrium; the tongue at first was parched;

deafness at the commencement; there was no sleep; not very thirsty;

urine thick and red, when allowed to stand it did not subside;

alvine discharge very dry, and not scanty. On the fifth, urine thin,

had substances floating in it which did not fall to the bottom; at

night he was delirious. On the sixth, had jaundice; all the symptoms

were exacerbated; had no recollection. On the seventh, in an

uncomfortable state; urine thin, as formerly; on the following days

the same. About the eleventh day, all the symptoms appeared to be

lightened. Coma set in; urine thicker, reddish, thin substances below,

had no sediment; by degrees he became collected. On the fourteenth,

fever gone; had no sweat; slept, quite collected; urine of the same

characters. About the seventeenth, had a relapse, became hot. On the

following days, acute fever, urine thin, was delirious. Again, on

the twentieth, had a crisis; free of fever; had no sweat; no

appetite through the whole time; was perfectly collected; could not

speak, tongue dry, without thirst; deep sleep. About the twenty-fourth

day he became heated; bowels loose, with a thin, watery discharge;