Of The Epidemics   

faeces; the urine throughout bad; for the most part coma, or

insomnolency with pain; continued aversion to food. Ardent fever.

Explanation of the characters. It is probable that the weakness

produced by the fever, the phrenitis, and affection of the

hypochondrium caused death on the hundred and twentieth day.

CASE II. In Thasus, the woman who lodged near the Cold Water, on the

third day after delivery of a daughter, the lochial discharge not

taking place, was seized with acute fever, accompanied with rigors.

But a considerable time before delivery she was feverish, confined

to bed, and loathed her food. After the rigor which took place,

continual and acute fevers, with rigors. On the eighth and following

days, was very incoherent, and immediately afterwards became

collected; bowels disordered, with copious, thin, watery, and

bilious stools; no thirst. On the eleventh was collected, but disposed

to coma; urine copious, thin, and black; no sleep. On the twentieth,

slight chills, and immediately afterwards was warm; slight

incoherence; no sleep; with regard to the bowels, in the same

condition; urine watery, and copious. On the twenty-seventh, free from

fever; bowels constipated; not long afterwards violent pain of the

right hip-joint for a considerable time; fevers afterwards supervened;

urine watery. On the fortieth, complaints about the hip-joint

better; continued coughs, with copious, watery sputa; bowels

constipated; aversion to food; urine the same; fever not leaving her

entirely, but having paroxysms in an irregular form, sometimes

present, sometimes not. On the sixtieth, the coughs left her without a

crisis, for no concoction of the sputa took place, nor any of the

usual abscesses; jaw on the right side convulsively retracted;

comatose, was again incoherent, and immediately became collected;

utter aversion to food; the jaw became relaxed; alvine discharges

small, and bilious; fever more acute, affected with rigors; on the

following days lost her speech, and again became collected, and

talked. On the eightieth she died. In this case the urine throughout