Of The Epidemics   

falling into a state of insomnolency. There were many cases of failure

of crisis, and many of unfavorable crisis; many of dropsy and of

phthisis. Such were the diseases then epidemic. There were patients

affected with every one of the species which have been mentioned,

and many died. The symptoms in each of these cases were as follows:

4. In many cases erysipelas, from some obvious cause, such as an

accident, and sometimes from even a very small wound, broke out all

over the body, especially, in persons about sixty years of age,

about the head, if such an accident was neglected in the slightest

degree; and this happened in some who were under treatment; great

inflammation took place, and the erysipelas quickly spread all over.

in the most of them abscessed ended in suppurations, and there were

great fallings off (sloughing) of the flesh, tendons, and bones; and

the defluxion which seated in the part was not like pus, but a sort of

putrefaction, and the running was large and of various characters.

Those cases in which any of these things happened about the head

were accompanied with falling off of the hairs of the head and chin,

the bones were laid bare and separated, and there were excessive

runnings; and these symptoms happened in fevers and without fevers.

But these things were more formidable in appearance than dangerous;

for when the concoction in these cases turned to a these cases

turned to a suppuration, most of them recovered; but when the

inflammation and erysipelas disappeared, and when no abscess was

formed, a great number of these died. In like manner, the same

things happened to whatever part of the body the disease wandered, for

in many cases both forearm and arm dropped off; and in those cases

in which it fell upon the sides, the parts there, either before or

behind, got into a bad state; and in some cases the whole femur and

bones of the leg and whole foot were laid bare. But of all such cases,

the most formidable were those which took place about the pubes and

genital organs. Such was the nature of these cases when attended

with sores, and proceeding from an external cause; but the same things