Of The Epidemics   

like that which has been shaken after the sediment has fallen to the

bottom; acute fever, quite delirious, did not sleep; knees and legs

painful; after a suppository, had alvine dejections of a black

color. On the sixteenth, urine thin, had a cloudy eneorema, was

delirious. On the seventeenth, in the morning, extremities cold, was

covered up with the bedclothes, acute fever, general sweat, felt

relieved, more collected; not free of fever, thirsty, vomited yellow

bile, in small quantities; formed faeces passed from the bowels, but

soon afterwards black, scanty, and thin; urine thin, not well colored.

On the eighteenth, not collected, comatose. On the nineteenth, in

the same state. On the twentieth, slept; quite collected, sweated,

free from fever, not thirsty, but the urine thin. On the twenty-first,

slight delirium; somewhat thirsty, pain of the hypochondrium, and

throbbing about the navel throughout. On sediment in the urine,

quite collected. Twenty-seventh, pain of the right hip joint; urine

thin and bad, a sediment; all the other symptoms milder. About the

twenty-ninth, pain of the right eye; urine thin. Fortieth,

dejections pituitous, white, rather frequent; sweated abundantly all

over; had a complete crisis.

Explanation of the characters. It is probable that, by means of

the stools, the urine, and the sweat, this patient was cured in

forty days.

Sect. II



CASE I. In Thasus, Philistes had headache of long continuance, and

sometimes was confined to bed, with a tendency to deep sleep; having

been seized with continual fevers from drinking, the pain was

exacerbated; during the night he, at first, became hot. On the first

day, he vomited some bilious matters, at first yellow, but

afterwards of a verdigris-green color, and in greater quantity; formed

faeces passed from the bowels; passed the night uncomfortably. On

the second, deafness, acute fever; retraction of the right