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troublesome; they were not in appetite, for it was necessary to give

them food (on the whole, persons laboring under phthisis were not

affected in the usual manner). They were affected with fevers, rigors,

and deficient sweats, with varied and irregular paroxysms, in

general not intermitting, but having exacerbations in the tertian

form. The earliest crisis which occurred was about the twentieth

day, in most about the fortieth, and in many about the eightieth.

But there were cases in which it did not leave them thus at all, but

in an irregular manner, and without any crisis; in most of these the

fevers, after a brief interval, relapsed again; and from these

relapses they came to a crisis in the same periods; but in many they

were prolonged so that the disease was not gone at the approach of

winter. Of all those which are described under this constitution,

the phthisical diseases alone were of a fatal character; for in all

the others the patients bore up well, and did not die of the other

fevers.

Sect. II. Second Constitution



1. In Thasus, early in autumn, the winter suddenly set in rainy

before the usual time, with much northerly and southerly winds.

These things all continued so during the season of the Pleiades, and

until their setting. The winter was northerly, the rains frequent,

in torrents, and large, with snow, but with a frequent mixture of fair

weather. These things were all so, but the setting in of the cold

was not much out of season. After the winter solstice, and at the time

when the zephyr usually begins to blow, severe winterly storms out

of season, with much northerly wind, snow, continued and copious

rains; the sky tempestuous and clouded; these things were

protracted, and did not remit until the equinox. The spring was

cold, northerly, rainy, and clouded; the summer was not very sultry,

the Etesian winds blew constant, but quickly afterwards, about the

rising of Arcturus, there were again many rains with north winds.