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hemorrhage from the nose takes place, but those who have heaviness

of the whole head, cardialgia and nausea, vomit bilious and

pituitous matters; children, in such affections, are generally

attacked with convulsions, and women have these and also pains of

the uterus; whereas, in elder persons, and those in whom the heat is

already more subdued, these cases end in paralysis, mania, and loss of

sight.





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7. In Thasus, a little before and during the season of Arcturus,

there were frequent and great rains, with northerly winds. About the

equinox, and till the setting of the Pleiades, there were a few

southerly rains: the winter northerly and parched, cold, with great

winds and snow. Great storms about the equinox, the spring

northerly, dryness, rains few and cold. About the summer solstice,

scanty rains, and great cold until near the season of the Dog-star.

After the Dog-days, until the season of Arcturus, the summer hot,

great droughts, not in intervals, but continued and severe: no rain;

the Etesian winds blew; about the season of Arcturus southerly rains

until the equinox.

8. In this state of things, during winter, paraplegia set in, and

attacked many, and some died speedily; and otherwise the disease

prevailed much in an epidemical form, but persons remained free from

all other diseases. Early in the spring, ardent fevers commenced and

continued through the summer until the equinox. Those then that were

attacked immediately after the commencement of the spring and

summer, for the most part recovered, and but few of them died. But

when the autumn and the rains had set in, they were of a fatal

character, and the greater part then died. When in these attacks of

ardent fevers there was a proper and copious hemorrhage from the nose,