Of The Epidemics   

was black, thin, and watery; coma supervened; there was aversion to

food, aversion to food, despondency, and insomnolency; irritability,

restlessness; she was of a melancholic turn of mind.

Explanation of the characters. It is probable that the suppression

of the lochial discharge caused death on the day.

CASE III. In Thasus, Pythion, who was lodged above the Temple of

Hercules, from labor, fatigue, and neglected diet, was seized with

strong rigor and acute fever; tongue dry, thirsty, and bilious; had no

sleep; urine darkish, eneorema floating on the top of the urine, did

not subside. On the second day, about noon, coldness of the

extremities, especially about the hands and head; loss of speech and

of articulation; breathing short for a considerable time; recovered

his heat; thirst; passed the night quietly; slight sweats about the

head. On the third, passed the day in a composed state; in the

evening, about sunset, slight chills; nausea, agitation; passed the

night in a painful state; had no sleep; small stools of compact faeces

passed from the bowels. On the fourth, in the morning, composed; about

noon all the symptoms became exacerbated; coldness, loss of speech,

and of articulation; became worse; recovered his heat after a time;

passed black urine, having substances floating in it; the night quiet;

slept. On the fifth, seemed to be lightened, but a painful weight

about the belly; thirsty, passed the night in a painful state. On

the sixth, in the morning, in a quiet state; in the evening the

pains greater; had a paroxysm; in the evening the bowels properly

opened by a small clyster; slept at night. On the seventh, during

the day, in a state of nausea, somewhat disturbed; passed urine of the

appearance of oil; at night, much agitation, was incoherent, did not

sleep. On the eighth, in the morning, slept a little; but

immediately coldness, loss of speech, respiration small and weak;

but in the evening recovered his heat again; was delirious, but

towards day was somewhat lightened; stools small, bilious, and

unmixed. On the ninth, affected with coma, and with nausea when