on the following days acute fever, tongue parched. On the

twenty-seventh he died. In this patient deafness continued throughout;

the urine either thick and red, without sediment, or thin, devoid of

color, and, having substances floating in it: he could taste nothing.

Explanation of the characters. It is probably that it was the

suppression of the discharges from the bowels which occasioned death

on the twenty-seventh day.

CASE III. The man who was lodged in the Garden of Dealces: had

heaviness of the head and pain in the right temple for a

considerable time, from some accidental cause, was seized with

fever, and took to bed. On the second, there was a trickling of pure

blood from the left nostril, but the alvine discharges were proper,

urine thin, mixed, having small substances floating in it, like coarse

barley meal, or semen. On the third, acute fever; stools black,

thin, frothy, a livid sediment in the dejections; slight coma;

uneasiness at the times he had to get up; sediment in the urine livid,

and somewhat viscid. On the fourth, slight vomiting of bilious, yellow

matters, and, after a short interval, of the color of verdigris; a few

drops of pure blood ran from the left nostril; stools the same;

urine the same; sweated about the head and clavicles; spleen enlarged,

pain of the thigh on the same side; loose swelling of the right

hypochondrium; at night had no sleep, slight delirium. On the sixth,

stools black, fatty, viscid, fetid; slept, more collected. On the

seventh, tongue dry, thirsty, did not sleep; was somewhat delirious;

urine thin, not of a good color. On the eighth, stools black,

scanty, and compact; slept, became collected; not very thirsty. On the

ninth had a rigor, acute fever, sweated, a chill, was delirious,

strabismus of the right eye, tongue dry, thirsty, without sleep. On

the tenth, much the same. On the eleventh, became quite collected;

free from fever, slept, urine thin about the crisis. The two following

days without fever; it returned on the fourteenth, then immediately

insomnolency and complete delirium. On the fifteenth, urine muddy,

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