Of The Epidemics   

sediment; extremities recovered their heat. On the eleventh, vomited

bile of a verdigris-green color; not long after had a rigor, and again

the extremities cold; towards evening a rigor, a cold sweat, much

vomiting; passed a painful night. On the twelfth, had copious black

and fetid vomitings; much hiccup, painful thirst. On the thirteenth,

vomitings black, fetid, and copious; rigor about mid-day, loss of

speech. On the fourteenth, some blood ran from her nose, she died.

In this case the bowels were loose throughout; with rigors: her age

about seventeen. An ardent fever.

Sect. III



1. The year was southerly, rainy; no winds throughout. Droughts

having prevailed during the previous seasons of the year, the south

winds towards the rising of Arcturus were attended with much rain.

Autumn gloomy and cloudy, with copious rains. Winter southerly,

damp, and soft. But long after the solstice, and near the equinox,

much wintery weather out of season; and when now close to the equinox,

northerly, and winterly weather for no long time. The spring again

southerly, calm, much rain until the dog-days. Summer fine and hot;

great suffocating heats. The Etesian winds blew small and irregular;

again, about the season of Arcturus, much rains with north winds.

2. The year being southerly, damp, and soft towards winter, all were

healthy, except those affected with phthisis, of whom we shall write

afterwards.

3. Early in spring, along with the prevailing cold, there were

many cases of erysipelas, some from a manifest cause, and some not.

They were of a malignant nature, and proved fatal to many; many had

sore-throat and loss of speech. There were many cases of ardent fever,

phrensy, aphthous affections of the mouth, tumors on the genital

organs; of ophthalmia, anthrax, disorder of the bowels, anorexia, with

thirst and without it; of disordered urine, large in quantity, and bad

in quality; of persons affected with coma for a long time, and then