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hypochondrium; urine thin, transparent, had some small substances like

semen floating in it; delirium ferox about mid-day. On the third, in

an uncomfortable state. On the fourth, convulsions; all the symptoms

exacerbated. On the fifth, early in the morning, died.

Explanation of the characters. It is probable that the death of

the patient on the fifth day is to be attributed to a phrenitis,

with unfavorable evacuations.

CASE II. Charion, who was lodged at the house of Demaenetus,

contracted a fever from drinking. Immediately he had a painful

heaviness of the head; did not sleep; bowels disordered, with thin and

somewhat bilious discharges. On the third day, acute fever;

trembling of the head, but especially of the lower lip; after a little

time a rigor, convulsions; he was quite delirious; passed the night

uncomfortably. On the fourth, quiet, slept little, talked

incoherently. On the fifth, in pain; all the symptoms exacerbated;

delirium; passed the night uncomfortably; did not sleep. On the sixth,

in the same state. On the seventh had a rigor, acute fever, sweated

all over his body; had a crisis. Throughout the alvine discharges were

bilious, scanty, and unmixed; urine thin, well colored, having

cloudy substances floating in it. About the eighth day, passed urine

of a better color, having a white scanty sediment; was collected, free

from fever for a season. On the ninth it relapsed. About the

fourteenth, acute fever. On the sixteenth, vomited pretty frequently

yellow, bilious matters. On the seventeenth had a rigor, acute

fever, sweated, free of fever; had a crisis; urine, after the

relapse and the crisis, well colored, having a sediment; neither was

he delirious in the relapse. On the eighteenth, became a little

heated; some thirst, urine thin, with cloudy substances floating in

it; slight wandering in his mind. About the nineteenth, free of fever,

had a pain in his neck; a sediment in the urine. Had a complete crisis

on the twentieth.

Explanation of the characters. It is probable that the patient was