Of The Epidemics   

from affections of the belly, for it was the belly which carried

them all off.

9. All persons had an aversion to food in all the afore-mentioned

complaints to a degree such as I never met with before, and persons in

these complaints most especially, and those recovering from them,

and in all other diseases of a mortal nature. Some were troubled

with thirst, and some not; and both in febrile complaints and in

others no one drank unseasonably or disobeyed injunctions.

10. The urine in many cases was not in proportion to the drink

administered, but greatly in excess; and the badness of the urine

voided was great, for it had not the proper thickness, nor concoction,

nor purged properly; for in many cases purgings by the bladder

indicate favorably, but in the greatest number they indicated a

melting of the body, disorder of the bowels, pains, and a want of

crisis.

11. Persons laboring under phrenitis and causus were particularly

disposed to coma; but also in all other great diseases which

occurred along with fever. In the main, most cases were attended

either by heavy coma, or by short and light sleep.

12. And many other forms of fevers were then epidemic, of tertian,

of quartan, of nocturnal, of continual, of chronic, of erratic, of

fevers attended with nausea, and of irregular fevers. All these were

attended with much disorder, for the bowels in most cases were

disordered, accompanied with rigors, sweats not of a critical

character, and with the state of the urine as described. In most

instances the disease was protracted, for neither did the deposits

which took place prove critical as in other cases; for in all

complaints and in all cases there was difficulty of crisis, want of

crisis, and protraction of the disease, but most especially in

these. A few had the crisis about the eightieth day, but in most

instances it (the disease?) left them irregularly. A few of them

died of dropsy without being confined to bed. And in many other