Of The Epidemics   

the sixth, towards night, talked much incoherently; had no sleep.

About the eleventh day was seized with wild delirium, and again became

collected; urine black, thin, and again deficient, and of an oily

appearance; copious, thin, and disordered evacuations from the bowels.

On the fourteenth, frequent convulsions;extremities cold; not in

anywise collected; suppression of urine. On the sixteenth loss of

speech. On the seventeenth, she died. Phrenitis.

Explanation of the characters. It is probable that death was caused,

on the seventeenth day, by the affection of the brain consequent

upon her accouchement.

CASE XV. In Thasus, the wife of Dealces, who was lodged upon the

Plain, from sorrow was seized with an acute fever, attended with

chills. From first to last she wrapped herself up in her bedclothes;

still silent, she fumbled, picked, bored, and gathered hairs (from

them); tears, and again laughter; no sleep; bowels irritable, but

passed nothing; when directed, drank a little; urine thin and

scanty; to the touch of the hand the fever was slight; coldness of the

extremities. On the ninth, talked much incoherently, and again

became composed and silent. On the fourteenth, breathing rare,

large, at intervals; and again hurried respiration. On the

sixteenth, looseness of the bowels from a stimulant clyster;

afterwards she passed her drink, nor could retain anything, for she

was completely insensible; skin parched and tense. On the twentieth,

much talk, and again became composed; loss of speech; respiration

hurried. On the twenty-first she died. Her respiration throughout

was rare and large; she was totally insensible; always wrapped up in

her bedclothes; either much talk, or completely silent throughout.

Phrenitis.

CASE XVI. In Meliboea, a young man having become heated by

drinking and much venery, was confined to bed; he was affected with

rigors and nausea; insomnolency and absence of thirst. On the first

day much faeces passed from the bowels along with a copious flux;